3.32 Speculations III: 35-100 CE

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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More speculations and alternative histories! Our first diverges from our own timeline in about the year 35. What if Jesus had not been executed by the Romans, but had lived on to see the Great Judean Revolt of 66 CE. What would he have made of it? Second, let’s say that Jesus died when did, a generation before the Great Revolt. What might have happened if his chief apostles Peter and Paul had lived to witness the Roman attack on Judea? And third, let’s move on to about the year 100, when Christians first fell under the Roman gaze. Would the church have flourished earlier and more strongly if the Roman state had never persecuted it?

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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
0:23.6	were sent spinning into the void after the destruction of the temple.
0:28.6	All of the history about all of the books beyond the Bible. Episode 3.32.
0:41.6	Speculations, Part 3.
0:45.4	In my final episodes, Steve Guerra of the History of the Papacy podcast and I are mulling alternative histories.
0:54.6	We presented our first five speculative scenarios in parts one and two of this series.
1:02.6	This time we look at three new scenarios.
1:06.6	Our first diverges from our timeline in about the year 35.
1:12.9	What if Jesus had not been executed by the Romans but had lived on to see the great Judean
1:18.5	revolt of 66 CE?
1:21.7	What would he have made of it?
1:24.3	Second, let's say that Jesus died when he did, a generation before the Great Revolt.
1:30.3	But what might have happened if his chief apostles Peter and Paul had lived to witness
1:37.3	the Roman attack on Judea?
1:40.3	And third, let's move on to about the year 100, when Christians first fell under the Roman
1:46.1	gaze. Would the church have flourished earlier and more strongly if the Roman state had never
1:52.5	persecuted it?
1:56.1	Okay, scenario six.
1:59.4	What if Jesus had lived past the Great Revolt? Now, dear listener, I admit,
2:05.1	I have got hardly any notes on this because I have absolutely no idea what would have happened
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