Giday, I'm Gary Stevens.

And welcome to the third season of the History in the Bible podcast.

In this final season, I explore how the Jews and the Christians constructed new religions when they were

sent spinning into the void after the destruction of the temple. All of the history, about all of the

books beyond the Bible. Episode 3.30, Speculations Part 1

For the last few episodes of my main narrative, I will entertain you with some speculations.

I will explore some paths that early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism could have travelled down.

I have prepared a set of 16 fascinating alternative history scenarios.

These will be discussed in order of their divergence from our timeline.

The first scenario is set in about 30, C.E. A.D.

The final one is set in the year 380.

Alternative histories are sometimes called alloh history or Ukraineronius or What Ifs.

There are two distinct ventures.

First, novels and stories.

And the second, academic essays by professional historians.

The latter are usually called counterfactuals.

The entertaining what ifs are written by fiction authors.

These writers posit a divergence point from our timeline and let their imaginations run wild.

They are free to invent events and characters in their imagined history, and to carry their

stories far beyond the point of divergence.

For hundreds of years in many cases, alternate histories are a sub-genre of literary fiction

or science fiction or historical fiction.

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