<p>Galilee began the 1st Century C.E. as a quiet rural backwater - at least as pagan as it was Jewish: but within that pivotal century it became the epicenter of the new 'Jesus movement' and the cradle of the Judaism of today. Deslee Campbell's <em>Life in 1st Century Galilee: History Culture and Change </em>brings the transformation of that century to the reader Christian and Jewish alike. </p>