The year God died : Jesus and the Roman Empire in 33 AD / James Lacey.

Prelude: a very Roman murder
Part I: the New Testament and its critics
Did Jesus exist?
Who wrote the Gospels?
The Jesus quests
Part II: the Roman world
What was the Roman Empire?
Rome rules the world
A survey of the Roman world
The Roman world grows rich
What Romans believed
Part III: Tiberius and the New Roman Empire
Sejanus comes onstage
Succession, chaos returns
The death of Augustus
Part IV: Herod and the birth of Jesus
Prelude to Herod
Herod in power
Birth of Jesus
Part V: the Galilee Jesus knew
Judea and Galilee under Herod's rule
Was Jesus a Zealot?
Israel: Herod's death and Jesus as a child
Economic growth and Galilee
Jesus's Galilee in 33 AD
Part IV: Tiberius rules the empire
Tiberius versus Germanicus
The rise of Sejanus
The fall of Sejanus
33 Ad's other great catastrophe
Part VII: Passion week
Reconstructing Jesus's last week
Jesus's trial
Pontius Pilate: what do we know?
Jesus on trial
Aftermath.