2.1 In Babylon I: The Exile

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 July 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In the first episode of series two, I begin with the Judeans in exile in Babylon. We move from the prophet Jeremiah to the prophet Ezekiel, and his crazy imagery, imagery that has inflamed Christian iconography for centuries. But not only Christians. Ezekiel is the father of Jewish mysticism, a movement which the rabbis only quashed in the early Middle Ages.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens.
0:08.0	And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.0	Welcome to the second and final series of the history in the Bible.
0:25.4	I kick off with this, episode 2.1 in Babylon 1, The Exile.
0:32.8	Did you miss me? No.
0:35.8	So sad. I missed you. In this series, I will survey the entire period from the
0:42.7	exile to the writing of the last books of the New Testament. More of the history, in more of the
0:49.3	books, in all the Bibles. You may think the exile an odd place to start my second series,
0:57.0	but let me run over my reasons again.
1:00.0	This is the second temple period,
1:03.0	named after the temple that Ezra and Nehemiah
1:07.0	and the exiles from Babylon constructed to replace Solomon's temple. The Jews were ruled
1:13.6	successively by Babylon, Persia, the Greek kingdoms and Rome, with a brief period of tumultuous
1:20.6	independence under the Maccabeean kings. The second temple period spawned a luxuriant Jewish literature,
1:30.0	dozens and dozens of books with radically new ideas.
1:35.4	None of these books made it into the Jewish canon,
1:38.7	and few into the Christian,
1:41.0	although many of their ideas became foundational to Christianity.
1:46.0	The books written after the exile that Jews and Christians include in their Bibles
1:53.0	have much more in common with this Second Temple literature than with all the books written before the exile.
2:03.5	A great example is the book of Daniel,
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