Year of the Passover ranges far and wide across the brutal landscape of the eastern Roman Empire of two thousand years ago.New insights are gained on the origins of Christianity and the reasons for Jesus' crucifixion as New Testament events are accurately dated within the established framework of Roman and Jewish history.Central to this secular and unapologetic work are the writings of historian Flavius Josephus, who was born in the shadow of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Trained as a Jewish priest, Josephus went on to become a general in the disastrous Jewish revolt of A.D. 66.