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 3.8, after the temple part two, the Christians.

In this and the following episodes, I want to follow the evolution of Christianity

between the Great Revolt of the Year 66 and the Bar-Cosiba insurrection two generations later in 132.

Let's call it the interwar period.

I have a spiffing printable timeline on my website

www.w.historyin the Bible.com.

You may have heard that all the books of the New Testament

are written in the three decades after the death of Jesus,

and certainly before the Great Revolt.

Here I shall ride on the coatted tales of modern scholarship.

Modern scholars accept that the seven real letters of Paul,

and perhaps the Gospel of Mark, were written before the Great Revolt.

All the other books were written between the Great Revolt and the Barcosiba Rebellion.

The only New Testament book that may have been written

after the Barcosiba Revolt is Second Peter. The interwar period saw many others write books.

The Didiki, the Shepherd of Hermes, the Epistle of Barnabas, the Apocalypse of Peter, amongst others.

None of them made it into the New Testament, although some came very close indeed.

I'll get to them later. This is the era in which the apostles died, and the early travelling preachers such as Paul disappeared.

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