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Episode 16, four main parts.

This is the second of 10 shows that will do on the Old Testament.

And in this program we're going to talk about the overall superstructure of the Old Testament,

dividing it into four main parts, the Pentatuke, the historical books, the wisdom books, and the prophetic books.

Our goal, by the end of this program, is to have established a high-level view of first the different

Old Testament cannonsons and then the content and

organization of those books common to all Old Testaments. In the previous show we

learned all about Canaan, that small strip of coastal land between Egypt and Mesopotamia.

We learned about two kingdoms there, Israel in the north and Judah in the south, both of which were as early as 1207

B.C. associated with an indigenous people called the Israelites, who came down out of the eastern highlands and onto the coastal

plane after the Bronze Age collapse destabilized the power structure once

dominated by Egypt. And we learned that in both north and south from the late 800s down to the early 500s

b.C. these Israelites faced wave upon wave of invasions by foreigners, Egyptians, then Aramaic Syrians, then generations

of us Syrians, then Egyptians again, and finally, Babylonians.

We voyaged through the history of Canaan up until the

five 80s when after years of being pummeled by foreign conquests, the nobles and

priests of the Southern Kingdom of Judah were relocated to modern day Iraq in

what is commonly called the Babylonian captivity.

And most importantly, we paid very close attention to those crucial years between about 630 and 580,

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