It was decorated with mosaics and venerated along with the house. (Photo copyright Ken Dark.) It appears that during the first century A.D. Nazareth, and its environs, was a conservative Jewish ...

extensive history of the Jewish people ... from Biblical days coming down to his own time. Josephus wrote mostly at the end of the first century ... around the year 100, just a few years before ...

A house and lands were the necessary props to his ambitions. Hughenden is one of the case studies presented in JEWISH COUNTRY HOUSES ... inhabited by 19th-century moguls in such industries ...