... God as creator of the universe (Fisher, 2002). As the Jews lived under foreign rule such as Persian, Greek, Parthian, and then Roman, Judaism became somewhat open to cross-cultural religious borrowings. Concepts of Satan, the hierarchy of angels, reward or punishment in an afterlife, and ... to Jerusalem in 65 C.E. to find the country in revolt against Rome. Violence breaks out in Caesarea and spreads to Jerusalem because the Roman governor required reparations to be paid. The Jewish inhabitants of Caesarea had apparently gotten angry over the relationships with their gentile neighbors an...

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