3.13 After the Apostles I: Out of the Mist

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

By the year 70, all of the disciples save perhaps John, were dead. Their inheritors are traditionally known as the Apostolic fathers, although many scholars would object to that appellation. I explore the fathers in this and the next episode. In this show I present the very earliest: Bishop Clement of Rome, and the anonymous author of the Didache, a fascinating look into earliest Christian practices. Along the way I speculate about the relationship between Jewish and Christian practices of the time. Who took what from whom? I finish up with the earliest Christian commentator, Papias of Hierapolis; and with Ignatius of Antioch.

Theme music "Inspiring Teaser" by Rafael Krux, https://filmmusic.io/song/5672-inspiring-teaser, license https://filmmusic.io/standard-license.

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0:00.0	Giday, I'm Gary Stevens.
0:09.9	And welcome to the third season of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:15.2	In this final season, I explore how the Jews and the Christians constructed new religions when they were sent
0:23.9	spinning into the void after the destruction of the temple. All of the history, about all of the
0:31.4	books beyond the Mist. Some time ago I concluded my four-part series on the earliest Christians. I move on.
0:56.6	In the next few shows,
1:00.7	I will throw around a lot of dates and names.
1:04.8	Now, a podcast is the worst way to make sense of that.
1:07.6	That's why my website,
1:09.0	www.
1:12.0	History in the Bible.com, has a free printable PDF timeline
1:15.5	of early Christian works and notable figures.
1:20.0	It will warm your heart for the rest of the season.
1:23.4	Why not tack it on to your wine fridge?
1:26.8	By the year 70, the end of the Great Revolt, all the disciples were dead, with the possible
1:32.7	exception of John.
1:35.0	The stories and legends that he died a full 30 years later, in Asia Minor, are persistent
1:41.6	enough to let us entertain the possibility.
1:45.2	We are now in the age of the Apostolic Fathers, the generation after the disciples.
1:52.5	These are the people who flourished in the 60 years between the Great Revolt in 70
1:58.0	and the Bar Coceba Revolt in 132.
2:02.6	Later tradition said these figures knew the disciples.
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