I'm John Bachelor with Professor James Tabor, who is putting together a story 2,000 years old

that has elements of the fantastic, as elements of deep prayer.

At the same time, there are people here, their historical figures, and they're moving

into a landscape that you can walk today and imagine how they live. And yet, there's something

that happens now with the Jewish revolt against Rome and against the men that Rome puts in to be the leaders of Jerusalem

from 66 to 70 and the Romans are ruthless when you rebel.

Jerusalem is the high city, Caesarea down at the coastline.

But Israel today was Palestine then, and it's the hinge of the Roman Empire.

It's why it's so important, a fertile crescent.

The Parthians to the east are the only real substantial enemy of Rome in the first century AD.

So Jerusalem is very important to the Romans.

When they put down the revolt, they destroy the second temple,

and they drive people out of the city.

Some of those people are Christians, some are Jewish who become the rabbinical school.

We need now to ask a question that the professor addresses throughout his book,

where did Mary go in the record, Professor?

Why does she disappear at this point?

Whose idea was that?

Well, she's almost written out earlier

because she's mentioned in the book of Acts chapter 1,

Day of Pentecost when the church begins. The movement is birth. Mary and the brothers are there.

After that, she's never mentioned. I think it's because she died later, but I think she may

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