2.49 The First Jesus Club I: Perfect Community

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

I introduce the book of Acts. The book tries to harmonise the deeds of the two great apostles: the pro-Jewish Peter and the pro-gentile Paul. Paul's letters say that Acts is telling porkies. The first third of the book is centred on the Jerusalem Jesus club. The book of Acts describes the disciples' earliest Jesus club as a golden age, a hippie commune, but a commune with a dark side. The disciples are arrested, but keep escaping from prison. The authorities eventually give up, letting them go after a light flogging. The Saducees appear in a rare cameo.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. 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.
0:20.4	Episode 2.49. The First Jesus Club Part 1, Perfect Community.
0:29.4	In the previous episode, I wrapped up my account of the biography of Jesus, as told in the
0:36.5	Gospels. Jesus is gone.
0:40.3	If the disciples believed he was the Messiah,
0:44.3	Jesus was like no Messiah depicted in the Jewish literature of the time.
0:50.3	Perhaps three centuries before Jesus,
0:53.3	Jews developed a literature of fantastical hope.
0:58.5	In those works, Jewish authors described a Messiah, literally an anointed one,
1:06.1	who would liberate the Israelites from their foreign oppressors.
1:10.4	This was a glorious warrior who would destroy
1:13.6	Judah's enemies. We get a good look at this Messiah in the Psalms of Solomon, a brief collection
1:22.2	of 18 laments and hopeful expectations. The Psalms bewail the arrogance of the corrupt and illegitimate Judean rulers who have been
1:33.2	justly punished and overthrown by Gentiles from the West.
1:38.9	That suggests the book was written after the conquest of Judea by the Roman General Pompey, a century before the death of Jesus.
1:49.0	Some Christian fathers believed that the Psalms deserved a place in the New Testament.
1:56.0	As in all the literature of the period, in the Psalms of Solomon, the Messiah is not some
2:03.3	supernatural being, but a man, a descendant of David, who will re-establish David's righteous
2:11.0	kingdom.
2:12.8	Long quote.
2:14.6	Psalm 1721.
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