You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Bias.

Welcome everyone to this episode of the podcast. Today we're going to ask the question,

what does the Bible mean by the apocalypse? And we're talking with Martha Himmelfar,

professor of religion at Princeton University for over 40 years. She knows her stuff.

Yeah, and her area of study is Judaism starting from the second temple period to Islam.

And Jared, we keep coming back to the second temple period business.

And we might sound like a broken record, but frankly, I don't really care. Do you, Jared?

I think it's a good record to break.

Because I still have things we could do an entire, like we could just second jump,

temple Judaism for Normal People. This is what we could do. This whole thing,

because it's such an important period of time. And again, if you want the details,

you can go back to the Paula Fredericks in episode where we talk a little bit more

in the intro about what this period of time is. But basically, it's a time of the second

temple period, which is, that's it. What else do you have to know?

It's a period of day, it's 516 BCE to about 70 CE. That's roughly, you know,

600 year period almost, where the second temple was standing and a lot of stuff happened in Judaism,

that really directly affected Christianity. So it's like a non-negotiable area of study,

if you want to understand Jesus and Paul and the rest of it, just the early Christian movement.

Well, and to that point, if you really want to understand what the Bible means by the apocalypse,

you have to understand second temple Judaism as well.

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