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 3.31, Speculations Part 2.

In my final episodes, Steve Gwera of the History of the Papacy podcast and I are mulling alternative histories of earliest Christianity.

We are working through a collection of divergence points from our timeline and wondering what

might have happened.

We presented our first two scenarios in part one of this series.

This time we look at three new and independent scenarios.

First, what if Christian missionaries had never preached to the pagans?

Second, what may have happened if Christian missionaries had ignored the Roman Empire

and proselytized Empathia instead.

Third, what would have become of Christianity if the Jewish revolts had never occurred?

And the temples stood to the end of the empire.

Hope you enjoy our musings.

Okay, Steve, let's tackle the third scenario.

Set roundabout, well, set when Paul was active.

But let's say there is no Paul.

There are no missionaries.

There is no mission to the Gentiles.

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