Everyday life in bible times

Alive really alive”… Such is the ancient world you enter within these 448 color packed pages.
A world alive with the clamor of marketplaces in man’s early cities, where merchants hawk pots, lyres, and melons, and a slave sells for less than the price of a draft animal… Alive with the dust and danger of a caravan as Abraham leads his kin from pagan “Ur of the Chaldees” in quest of a promised land… Alive with the smell of mud and straw as Hebrews make bricks under the lash of pharaohs; with the jeers of a Jerusalem mob surging to “the place of the skull” to watch Roman soldiers execute one the ages would call the prince of peace; with the howl of a tempest that shipwrecks his apostle, Paul.
In the past century the spades of science have brought forth a vast treasure of knowledge illuminating the great historical narratives of the bible. Kings and conquests known only in its pages sprang to life in texts and monuments throughout the Fertile Crescent.
With finds like the clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia, and stunning bonanzas like the Dead Sea Scrolls of Qumran, scholars have now revived those distant days when hunters and foragers began to turn to farming, develop plow and wheel, cluster their homes in towns, learn to write, make war, and worship.