Both Lawyers Reveled

The 1925 Scopes Trial and its Impact on the Culture Wars in the USA

In the attempt to explain the cultural ethos of Galilee at the time of Jesus or the tension over the apostle Paul (supposedly) sneaking a gentile into forbidden courts in the temple, historians are inclined to appeal to major moments in the past that shaped later moments. Thus, one appeals to the Hasmoneans and the movement of population into Galilee or…