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Welcome back, I'm Justin Briley and this is the show where I get to sit down with one of the

world's leading Theologians. Tom Wright to ask your questions, it's brought to you in

partnership with SPCK, an anti-right online and comes to you from Premier Unbelievably.

The umbrella organisation where you can get loads more of our resources and shows at

premierunbelievable.com. It's all linked with today's show. While we're continuing to bring you

some bonus content from Tom on the show at the moment, this is a talk Tom gave in November 2019

at the rock church in San Diego. They were hosting an event called an evening with anti-right and this

was shortly after the launch of the New Testament in its world. That major work with New

Testament scholar Mike Bird looking at the world that the New Testament was written into.

And in this talk Tom challenges us to think like first century Christians to imagine Jesus

and the early church within the history, culture and religion of the second temple Judaism

and the Greco-Roman world that they lived in. So thanks to the rock church for

permission to re-broadcast this talk and his Tom.

Thank you so much for that welcome. It's great to be here and to share both in fellowship

and in study with you all because this book which you've just seen a microadvertisement

for, the New Testament in its world, is really aimed at helping all of us to get in touch

with stuff which often we in the church don't get sufficiently in touch with,

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