Suppose: a busy Galilean street, the sidewalks thronged with Aramaic chatter, and someone cries out Yeshua! Heads turn because in first-century Judea, the name was as common as “Josh” or “Joe” is ...

Jewish law courts in first century Judea were presided over by a single judge and, just as when in this country the local squire was automatically the local magistrate, they were unpaid but ...