Episode 128: Matthias Henze - The Bible & Second Temple Judaism

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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What happened during the time the writings of the Old Testament stopped and the New Testament writings began? People didn’t stop writing and what they wrote helps us better understand the context of the Bible. On this episode we talk with Dr. Matthias Henze who studies this in-between time period and he shares with us what he's learned about the world in which Jesus lived. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.
0:04.8	I'm Pete Ends.
0:05.6	And I'm Jared Bias.
0:08.4	Welcome everyone to this episode of the Bible for Normal People.
0:11.6	You have a real treat coming your way today.
0:14.0	We have Matthias, Hinsa, who is a professor of Hebrew Bible and early Judaism
0:20.0	at Rice University, and we're here to talk about Messiah.
0:23.2	Yeah. And you know, just even that thing has titled Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism.
0:27.5	That's, he'll get to that.
0:29.4	That's why that's sort of an important way of thinking about all this time period
0:34.4	that's relevant for Jesus and the New Testament.
0:37.0	But yeah, I'm particularly excited to have Matthias on because I've known him for,
0:43.7	I guess maybe 25 years now, we were classmates together in graduate school and
0:49.1	he came a couple years after I did.
0:50.7	And he was just such a breath of fresh air.
0:52.4	And you'll see this.
0:53.6	He's such a nice guy.
0:55.2	And pretty darn smart too.
0:57.2	He's thought an awful lot about Jesus in the context of the Judaism
1:04.5	that he lived in, which is rather obvious thing to say.
1:07.8	And it's coming out.
1:08.8	I'm like, why wouldn't you do that, right?
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