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Folks, welcome back. I continue my conversation with Dr. Eugenia Constantinu or, as

it's properly pronounced, Eviania Constantinu or closer to that. Dr. Eugenia Constantinu, you are

the author most recently of this book, the crucifixion of the King of Glory, the amazing history

and sublime mystery of the Passion. What else will we find in this book that we ought to know?

Well, I think you're going to find it very fascinating, just for example, the description of the

temple. This was something that, again, we've been hearing about the temple as Christians

growing up. We hear about Jesus and the temple. But what the temple was really like? What went

on there? Why Jesus cleansed the temple? This sort of thing is really important because what we

find is that the important people who are central to the trial and crucifixion of Christ are the

chief priests and the level of corruption among the chief priests and the high priest in first

century Judaism is astonishing. And again, all of this information I got from Jewish sources. We

have Jewish sources that talk about the corruption and also the other aspects of temple worship

that is quite fascinating. And the book describes the temple. What was it really like if you were

to go there? What would you have seen? Where did you find what sources did you use? Because I

know kidding. In my most recent book, I went, I go into the whole temple thing and I've been reading

about it recently. And it really has opened up a whole world to me. So really now he hugely excited

to read your book just for that. So what sources did you read and what did you discover?

Of course, we have the first century sources, people like Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus.

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