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.

Hello people.

It's been a while, hasn't it?

I have an exciting announcement.

Oh, I'm as giddy as the Japanese school bill.

For a while now, I have been working on a set of books I call The History in the Bible podcast companion.

The first volume is now available from Amazon, and only from Amazon.

This first volume has the plain but accurate title of essential resources.

It is an enlargement of all the goodies previously only available from my website.

Did you get confused when I was discussing all those kings of Judah and Israel?

All those names.

Were you a bit lost when I presented the different biographies of Jesus in the Gospels? Essential Resources is here to help you out.

The Essential Resources book contains all the material it is impossible to convey orally in a podcast.

The book provides a ready reference to accompany your listening pleasure.

I would like to point out that this is a reference with integrity.

I didn't just go around the internet vacuuming stuff up.

Every item is based on sound academic sources.

Where the professors disagree, I make a point of noting their disputes.

Essential Resources sells for 12 US dollars.

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