A podcast that offers you an opportunity to deepen your appreciation of the different writings that make up our Bible. The focus of this first set of podcasts is the Acts of the Apostles. Our second focus is the Gospel According to Mark. Other podcasts on other books and writings of the First ("Old") and Second ("New") Testament will follow.
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A podcast that offers you an opportunity to deepen your appreciation of the different writings that make up our Bible. The focus of this first set of podcasts is the Acts of the Apostles. Our second focus is the Gospel According to Mark. Other podcasts on other books and writings of the First ("Old") and Second ("New") Testament will follow.
Bible Basics 10: The Geo-political Background to the Second Testament
Befriending the Bible
4 minutes
4 years ago
Bible Basics 10: The Geo-political Background to the Second Testament
This brief podcast reflects on the Greco-Roman context for the Jesus Movement and the growth of the Second Testament. Its writings emerge from a Jewish context and move into a non-Jewish Mediterranean world.
Herod's death (4BCE) brings about the division of his kingdom between his three sons: Antipas (responsible for Judah and Samaria), Herod Philip (Galilee, Upper and Lowers), Archelaus Transjordan),
Rome imposes heavy and intolerable taxation on the Jews.
Revolt occurs and Rome, under Titus, destroys Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 CE. A major moment that causes Jewish self-reflection on Israel's survival and future.
A second revolt (132 CE) brings Rome's complete occupation of Israel/Palestine until the end of the Byzantine Empire.
Tumult and revolt becomes the context of Jesus' ministry
The Jesus movement moves from a Jewish world, into the non-Jewish world, expanding north, south, east and west. Its expansion engages the culture and politics of the Greco-Roman world governed by imperial politics and theology.
Befriending the Bible
A podcast that offers you an opportunity to deepen your appreciation of the different writings that make up our Bible. The focus of this first set of podcasts is the Acts of the Apostles. Our second focus is the Gospel According to Mark. Other podcasts on other books and writings of the First ("Old") and Second ("New") Testament will follow.
