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Naming the 1st century as a zero point-“year 1”-that divides time into before and after is equally arbirtrary, nothing more than a convenience that is empirically meaningless. Approaches the 1st century through the writings of 3 thinkers often marginalized in current discourse: F. Josephus, historian of the Judaean War; the neo-Platonic philosopher Philo of Alexandria; and John of Patmos, author of Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible. Also making appearances are Antigone and J. Coltrane, Plato and Bulwer-Lytton, al-Farabi and J. Anouilh, Nicholas of Cusa and Z. Neale Hurston-not to mention Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Kristeva, and Derrida