G'day. I'm Gary Stevens. Welcome to the afterlife of the History in the Bible podcast.

Afterlife episode 10. Rabbis Arise!

Good-a-guay, guys.

I am back with another of my occasional afterlife episodes.

In this show, I am joined by Gil Cadrone, of the podcast of Biblical Proportions.

Around the year 200 CE, AD,

the rabbis produced their first great work, the Mishnah.

Not only their first great work,

but their first work of any kind.

The Mishnah simply explodes, unheralded,

into the historical record.

Where do the rabbis who wrote it come from?

We investigate.

I hope you enjoy the show.

Gahe, happy people. How are we today?

You're listening to Gil Kidron of a podcast of Biblical Proportions and Gary Stevens

of the History in the Bible podcast. And today, we are going to be exploring the very earliest

history of the rabbis and their potential co-evolution with earliest Christianity, up until about the year 200 ADC.

We chose this topic because you, Gary, feel very strongly about it.

Yeah.

Very interested and fascinating in that period of history, because we can basically say that

today's Judaism evolved from rabbinical Judaism, which was a new phenomenon around 200 CE,

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