History in the Bible
Summary: A layman's guide to a 150 years of research into the history presented in the Bible. I explore the religion of ancient Israel, and the development of Christianity through to the death of Paul. I discuss every single book in every Bible (there are more than you think!) Lightly garnished with a dash of drollery, a soupcon of scrutiny, and not one ounce of objectivity. Not one ounce! Episodes are released every third Sunday.
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Herod's descendants had few of the skills of their ancestor. It all ended with the annihilation of the Jewish state, the Jewish temple, and the Jewish capital.
The Romans introduce Judea to the world. Jews invent the synagogue, and the concept of life after death. The God of Abraham vanishes into the heavens, while Satan begins to walk the earth.
For more than 40 years, a small group of scholars jealously monopolised the Biblical find of the century. It was the greatest academic scandal of the 20th century.
Dan Libenson of the Judaism Unbound podcast returns to the show. This time we discuss best-selling Israeli author Yochi Brandes' novel 'The Orchard'. Dan translated the book into English. The novel centres on Rabbi Akiva, the man who forged rabbinic Judaism after teh fall of the Temple. Along the way we encounter a host of other rabbis and Paul of Tarsus. We also ponder the difficulties of translation and working out what actually happened in history.
The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the 1940s culminated a century of astonishing biblical discoveries.
Jewish society, and the factions of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes in Jesus' time
The Maccabean dynasty reaches a pinnacle of power, only to see it destroyed by its own incompetence; the Romans; and the genius of Antipater, and his son Herod (yes, that Herod).
The demonic Satan spoken of in the New Testament cannot be found in the Old Testament. The New Testament authors got that idea from the Book of Jubilees.
The books of Daniel and Parables lay the theological foundation for Christianity and, thanks to the Puritans, the USA.
The history behind the festival of Hanukkah. Rival high priests Jason and Menelaus plunge Judah into turmoil, and spark the revolt of the Maccabeans.
The social and economic tidal wave of international Hellenism challenged every aspect of Judean life and thought. A country Jewish priest called Mattathias revolted against this globalisation: Make Judea Holy Again!
First in a mini-series on the history of the Jews and the province of Judea under the Hellenistic empires, and under the Maccabees.
Apocalyptic books were a dime a dozen in the years before St John the Divine wrote the Book of Revelation. This episode tackles the first and greatest of them all, the First Book of Enoch.
Jews produced a vast number of religious books in the centuries before the birth of Jesus. They had no influence on later Judaism, but profoundly influenced Christianity.
I say goodbye to the Tanakh by presenting the last-written books of the Old Testament: Esther, Judith, Jonah, Obadiah and Jonah.
