Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.

All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles.

Well, Steve and Gary are back with part two of a crossover episode on James the awesomeness in the Second Temple period.

Now, we happily confess our ignorance at every point. If you want certainties, read any number of books by hundreds of tenured professors,

all of whom violently disagree of each other. Now, both of us are trying to get cushy jobs as

biblical studies professors at major universities where we only have to work two hours a week.

But we are constantly hampered by the fact that we freely admit we have no idea what we're talking about.

All those professors will fight to the death for their own views.

We'll change our minds for a large bag of candy or a few Big Macs.

Maybe even less.

Maybe.

Yeah, maybe even less.

We're going to finally get into James's career here,

but we think it's important to talk about how James fit into a Jewish and Christianity

in the way modern Jewish thought thinks about James.

We're using the Jewish annotated New Testament here.

So really his latest, 386 AD, John Chrysostom, he would berate people for attending synagogues.

And worse, I mean, a lot of people are saying that the split between Jews and Christians happened in the, you know, not too far after Jesus's time, and certainly by the 300s A.D., but as late as the 700s A.D. and later you have Christians going to Jewish temples, and it's really not a big, it's a big deal for some people, but for a lot of the average people,

it wasn't that big of a deal.

There's a lot of terms here, and it's kind of hard to wrap your mind around it.

We'll probably use Jewish Christians the most, but there's also Christian Jews, Judaizers, which Paul used to refer to Christians

who are acting or trying to fold in Jewish ideas. That one we probably won't use as well. We

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