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and download it today. Side Track Episode, Episode, James the Just, Part 1, with Gary Stevens.

Welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast.

I'm Steve, your host for this podcast about the history of the popes of Rome and the Christian Church.

This episode is the first part in a series about James the Just co-hosted with Gary Stevens of the History in the Bible podcast.

After doing our discussion on podcasting and a general overview of the Second Temple period of Judaism,

we got some really interesting feedback from listeners.

They shared their ideas, pointed out a few things we got wrong,

and believe it or not, we even got some things right.

In this episode, we're going to begin to talk about a man named James the Just, a man who embodied the late Second Temple period.

James connected the earliest Christianity to Judaism and was the very first bishop of the church.

He was even a close relative of Jesus himself.

We talked about James very early in the podcast, but there's so much more to the man, so I'm

really excited to talk about him more.

Gary and I want these episodes to be as interactive as possible, so send in your comments

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