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Book examines the religious sentiments in Judaea in the first century

"Common Judaism" was a term coined by E.P. Sanders to describe the religious sensibilities among people who lived during the period known as the Second Temple. This period coincided with the life of Jesus Christ, who, like the majority of the populace, did not follow the strictures of the major religious groups such as Sadducees, Pharisees or Essenes. Obviously some of the population had no religious interest at all, but the majority were considered to follow a form of "common" Judaism.  A <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Common-Judaism-Explorations-Second-temple/dp/0800662997/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240427431&sr=1-2">book published </a>late last year examines the concept of a common Judaism in greater detail, building on the work of Sanders, who, in fact, contributed an essay to the book. This appears to be a useful work for reevaluating the social environment of Judea and Galilee during the period when Jesus and the apostles taught in the first century C.E., making disciples of "the way." These were the First Followers. 10 application/xml false Devout people First Century First Followers Judaea Judaism Synagogues Temple Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 pnathan 66.125.198.98 false true false false true 188838 false false true false false false true 169992 blog blogsite/FirstFollowers/web