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. In this bonus episode, Gil Kierjong of a podcast of Biblical Proportions and I finish our discussion of biblical chronology.

So in the last years of Judea, we see the two factions, the two Hebrew factions, trading kings slash puppets.

Yeah.

A hawkish pro-Egyptian king, then a pragmatist pro-Babolian king, and on and on it goes

until the Egyptians are pushed away.

Yeah.

The end of the world is coming for the Hebrews.

In power, the Havokin,

and his court, hell-bent on believing

that Yahweh will stop Nebuchadnezz.

And this is when Jeremiah and is scribe,

Baruch-Ben-Hir-Nir-Hronical those last year

before Armageddon.

They are part of the pragmatist faction, calling to bend the knee to Nebuchadnezzar to prevent Armaged.

They failed.

In 586 BCE, Jerusalem is almost wiped off the face of the earth.

And some Hebrews are sent to live in Babylon,

and some immigrate more, a lot more than those who were just like mere thousands.

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