One BC: The World Jesus Entered - 🎄 Special Christmas Eve Episode! (Feat. Dr. Jodi Magness)

[@PatriciaWats]

Best guest ever! I usually am disappointed when Bart Ehrman isn’t there, but Jodi Magness is amazing, what a wonderful Christmas Eve episode, thank you both.

[@ericyeboah455]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@nbenefiel]

I want to be on that Antarctic cruise. Instead, I'm cleaning house and baking cookies. Merry Christmas

[@pappapiccolino9572]

If you look up the definition of "shockingly, jaw-droppingly, unbelievably great" in the dictionary, you will see a photo of Jodi Magness. What a privilege it is that we can partake in this woman's phenomenal knowledge with the click of a mouse. Bravo to all concerned.

[@yellowlynx]

Even at my office, all of the employees learned English and have college degrees, yet not many of them have the confidence to write long documents in English. If one is talking about functional literacy like speaking a bit of Greek back in 1st Century Palestine as a fisherman, carpenter or tradesman, it would be just enough to do the job, but no where near the literacy level needed compose any works in the New Testament in Greek.

[@aaroncrawford8123]

I think Megan is an incredible asset to the Misquoting Jesus podcast. I mean, her expertise in Assyriology and thoughtful insights really bring depth to each episode. I think it's great to see her shine alongside Bart. She's truly one of the best co-hosts out there imo and really makes the show! I can't even imagine it now without her.

[@RandyAndy7373]

Thank you Megan. Always great to see new knowledgeable scholars. Terrific insights. Also wonderful to listen to her. Loved it🎉❤

[@ramblinrandal]

Dr. Jodi is an wonderful and amazing gift and an antidote to so much of the BS around this subject area. And thank you Megan for being you. Merry/Happy Whatever you might celebrate - or not. Peace.

[@elizabethmann2635]

What a lovely Christmas gift. 🎄 Thank you.

[@HPLeft]

Terrific presentation by Dr. Magness. I highly recommend her course at The Great Courses on this general subject.

[@iggywhiskers]

You always keep it fresh and interesting. Thanks.

[@silene89]

Thank you, I really enjoyed the discussion! Amazing Jody Magness😀

[@ronnyskaar3737]

Megan is such a good host. She asks wisely about what I want to know.

[@YaoEspirito]

And what a pleasant voice, too.

[@SandraNash-jo6cc]

And I love her glasses too!​

[@arthurmartinson4370]

I have Jodi's audio CD, "Jesus and his Jewish Influences", from The Great Courses. Great to have this "supplementary" material. Her enthusiasm is evident. 🙂

[@susanstein6604]

Jesus didn’t have Jewish influences. He was Jewish.

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

I think im going to have to watch this more than once.

[@HilliardWilliams-c7x]

An amazing discussion. Thank you Dr. Magness.

[@ericyeboah455]

I think Dr. magness should be a frequent guest

[@Paul-t1l3q]

What a wonderful and informative presentation👍

[@MichaelYoder-e8g]

Happy Holidays to the whole crew! Always love the broadcast, a happy part of my week.

[@HeinzNetten]

Dr. Magness has lecture series with the Great Courses: Holy Land revealed and Jesus and His Jewish Influences. Wonderful courses, greatly recommended.

[@Paul-t1l3q]

Since October 7 I’ve had to throw myself recklessly into this topic. Thank you so much for this. Dr Magness is so listenable 😊

[@YaoEspirito]

🍉🍉✊🏾

Brilliant discussion with Dr. Magness!

[@KGchannel01]

Please have her back soon to talk about Herod's tomb and any implications regarding the infant massacre story, etc.

[@michaeldunne338]

Great Christmas Eve segment. Was a bit surprised actually to see this clip drop today. Enjoyed Jodi Magness' insights and enthusiasm.

[@petergrant2561]

Since most of the New Testament was written after the First Jewish-Roman War (66-70 CE), it would be interesting to do an episode on Palestine after 66CE

[@KGchannel01]

Jodi Magness' great courses are really captivating! Couldn't put it down!

[@ji8044]

I was just offering several books written by Dr. Magness to some evangelical Christians as an antidote to their appalling ignorance of life in 1st Century Judea. It might go better next time if I leave out the accusing them of appalling ignorance part.

[@nbenefiel]

Hard to resist

[@GameTimeWhy]

It is unfortunate that we need to coddle them in order to get them to think.

[@neclark08]

...but be honest...you ENJOYED it Not "going better"...😊

[@paulseigeldorf9461]

Sounds like you have it all figured out. BTW being condescending is a typical liberal trait. Thanks for not disappointing.

[@GameTimeWhy]

@@paulseigeldorf9461 weak bait. Typical con.

[@moodyonroody5313]

Thanks both - excellent Xmas eve watch :)

[@sso1834]

Thank you Dr. Magness.

[@albatrossington2707]

Such interesting information imparted with admirable clarity. Merry Christmas.

[@estaire79]

Stumbled upon your channel with this episode. Excellent discussion. As a lifelong Christian I have learned some things. Thank you!! Merry Christmas!

[@robertbrozewicz8003]

Thank you for the way you approach the explanations. It is to clarify after all and we hope that harmony will prevail.Always harmony. All the best for everyone.

[@forbuzz4870]

🩵 Thank you Bart Thank you Megan Thank you Jodi 🩵

[@BunnyWatson-k1w]

Megan - another great pair of glasses.

[@Pooneil1984]

Great episode. Megan makes this so much fun.

[@ekesandras1481]

although the title is misleading: there it says "the world", but they only talk about Palaestine. Nothing about Roman internal politics, the Roman Civil war, the first emperor Augustus, how was the rest of the Greek Roman East, nothing about Egypt post-Cleopatra, nothing about the Parthians, the situation on the Germanic limes, religious and philosophical trends in the Roman Empire ... Even linguistical issues: anyone listening to this might think Aramaic was something like the Jewish language of the day. Actually it was a geographically wide spread language spoken by a whole bunch of people in the whole of the Middle East, in the Roman part as well as in the Parthian part.

[@TacyTerryLady]

Perfect … I wanted something really good to watch ❤

[@luizr.5599]

Great episode as usual.

[@drgeorgek]

It’s very complicated, they kept changing rulers “Ok who was the ruler?” Herod

[@elliottgoad3128]

Outstanding guest. Thanks

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

Jodi!!! My boss for the Huqoq Excavation!! Merry Christmakkuh, Jodi!!! 13:18 ... The '96 excavation at Caesaria Maritima was where my wife and I first met Jodi and we've been friends ever since! 44:06 ... the Grail...the best tv episode I've seen about the Grail is from the UK comedy/drama tv series The Detectorists (a group of amateur enthusiasts who scour their local British landscape for artifacts, Medieval, Roman etc) and the Christmas Special episode from a few years ago...it's great fun and I recommend it!!

[@integrationalpolytheism]

10:28 - Dr Magnus may not know it, but she is also describing the majority of people today. Most people actually do live from month to month and haven't got savings in case of a crisis even in the middle class West.

[@GameTimeWhy]

Except the quality of life is vastly better even for the poor now than it ever was before. It's living paycheck to paycheck is still better housing and food quality and abundance than it was back then.

[@newtonfinn164]

Along with those who have called attention to the slaughter in the Middle East, you deserve our thanks for a sobering comment, and thus an existential one, one which cuts through the surface view of even the deepest scholarship. You've put in mind a well-known but seldom-recognized NT parallelism: "Thy kingdom come / Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

[@GameTimeWhy]

@@newtonfinn164 war in heaven war on earth?

[@SteveHazel]

fascinating to hear a little of how life was

[@benjamintrevino325]

If I were God and wanted humans to know me and have a relationship with me, I wouldn't make one brief appearance to one small group of people in one small area of the planet, not write anything down, but instead leave it to various anonymous writers to tell my story through a collection of literary works that at turns are literal, and allegorical, and sometimes either/or, depending on who is reading it, where they're reading it, and when they're reading it. The God of the Bible is such a crude caricature of the kind of God it would take create an entire universe. Am I the only one who sees that?

[@garrygiordano4059]

You are not. One more contemporary example of moving on from the Bible is the “Spiritual Science” concept of Rudolf Steiner or the writings of the Rosicrucians.

[@benjamintrevino325]

@garrygiordano4059 spiritual science is an oxymoron

[@GameTimeWhy]

Definitely not alone. It is nonsensical. The "it requires faith" cry does nothing to rebut either as there are many many examples in the Bible of people walking and talking with god and just seeing magic happening. Also some of the stories are hundreds or thousands of years apart so it removes even more reason why it couldn't be happening now.

[@KerryFreemanMelbourne]

Excellent guest...

[@RandomlyRandom2025]

Very good episode. Easy to follow. 👍

[@reedcockrell8126]

The Slaughter of the Innocents is something that Josephus would certainly have mentioned about Herod, if it had happened. He didn't, therefore it didn't.

[@kalynkilgore9164]

Or perhaps..idk..just like today..many mant documents are lost shredded burned...perhaps...Paul who wrote..alot..we have less than a small percentage of his writings..only what the Roman's..allowed...anyway the absolute Truth is our quest...it's written in our hearts..we will know it when it's seen❤❤

[@kalynkilgore9164]

Cause I'm sure he wanted that removed from his reign...perhaps

[@reedcockrell8126]

​@@kalynkilgore9164 Herod committed a lot of atrocities, many of which we know about from Josephus. If the Slaughter of the Innocents happened, Josephus would have known about it, and he would have written about it.

[@DominikPlaylists]

This is a big lie of biblical scholarship. ""At the death of Herod in 4 b.c.e. a rebellion broke out at the site, the so-called War of Varus, which sought to remove Sepphoris from Herodian rule (War, 2:68; Ant., 17:289). The rebellion was supposedly crushed and the city burned, and many of its inhabitants were taken as slaves."" Sepphoris was the capital Galilee for centuries and Nazareth was a suburb of it.

[@erichodge567]

Wow, thanks for that historical tidbit. It nicely describes the seed of memory out of which the story of the "Slaughter of the Innocents" might have grown. I'm going to have to finally sit down and read Josephus.

[@yw8931]

Learning something new

[@jonwesick2844]

I always thought this period in history would be a great setting for a thriller novel.

[@DrustZapat]

Great video! Thanks for making it 😊

[@therealzilch]

What an erudite, fascinating, and charming lesson. Thanks so much. I love Bart, but I didn't miss him this time. Sorry, Bart, and merry Christmas to all! cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott

[@GlorifiedTruth]

When I was in Hebrew school studying for my Bar Mitzvah, we were taught to frown on Aramaic. The pneumonic they taught us was "Aramaic, so archaic. Hebrew, Hebrew, you & mebrew."

[@bradquinn2859]

The inscription on the holy grail reads, "#1 Rabbi".

[@stein1919]

Some argued that the word we translate as inn could also be translated as “room” (like a bedroom of a 4-room house) and that Mary and Joseph were just downstairs where animals were often kept. We need Bart to weigh in if he hasn’t.

[@aaroncrawford8123]

Dr. Magness is amazing...but man, come on,...it's true we do have an artifact in the James Ossuary that reads, "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." And that's like John, Paul, and Ringo to me. 😐...in a 1st century tomb with boneboxes that fit... It blows my mind how this does not garner more serious attention?

[@MikeSmith-my1to]

I tune in because on Christmas Eve I expected Megan to have festive glasses and red and green hair.

[@johnspencer5062]

This is popular hah, 26k views in a day, thanks Megan and Bart for introducing Jodi to us. And what great introduction it was.

[@trilithon108]

Definitely learnt new things done in an engaging manner. 🎉

[@Steve-u9k4p]

Excellent, ty👍

[@petergrant2561]

It should be remembered that in 1BC there was not 1 uniform form of Judaism. Firstly it is just wrong to think that all people in Palestine at the time were Jewish. Even for the majority who were Jewish, Palestine was full of sects and cults of all sorts which were all classed as Jews. Much the same as the hundreds (if not thousands) of groups who call themselves Christian today but differ substantially in their beliefs and practices.

[@jamesgrosrenaudjr812]

Amazing ! Bart is going to have to do an episode on his trip when he gets back .

[@60th60th]

Really interesting! Thank you.

[@JovanDacic]

Gotta comment before hearing the whole thing: will this say whether or not Jesus would have worn tefillin? Excited to hear more on the historical context.

[@jeffbybee5207]

Thought bart had lost his eye glasses

[@lifesourceyogabodyworks9093]

Happy holidays to everyone! Just a quick pondering here. Why does it seem as if academics tend to dismiss the role and work of women running households, teaching/raising children, and managing daily lives and matters of their families? That's probably one of the most important roles in society if you think deeply about it. Military and government and paid employment is not all that matters.

[@patrickdlogan]

I did not hear what was said as being dismissive, just that there may have been some other roles as well.

[@brentwalker8596]

She merely stated the likely sphere of activity of women of the era. I heard nothing dismissive about her answer. The channel deals with matters of religion in the time of Jesus and it's pretty clear that the majority of leaders in politics, business, academia, and religious life were men.

[@GameTimeWhy]

I think you started complaining before listening. She didn't dismiss women at all.

[@kwamesmith3214]

It took me awhile to realize Dr Ehrman is a shapeshifter 😂😂

[@travisfox5034]

The no room at the inn is a mistranslation. In the original greek, the word refers to a sleeping loft of a house above the general living area. It was full, and mary, in labor, would have made it ritually unclean to have the baby there. Thus, Jesus was born in the families ( likely relatives of Joseph) stall, a separate room of the same family home. Animals were kept in the home due to predators and vagrant thievery of the time. The manger Christ was laid in was likely stone lined with straw, and the swaddling clothes are more symbolic than most realize as well. Swaddling clothes weren't for babies, but for newborn lambs to keep their fleece pure, making them acceptable sacrifices for the temple. That's why the shephards knew him by sight, the swaddling clothes. Also, shepherding wasnt a job, but a family job. While the men were away and in smaller families women often cared for the sheep. If the men were away to register or was otherwise not in the fields that night, a woman could have been one of the first to worship Christ.

[@joseaguayo3185]

Is that a cuneiform tablet plushie in the back?

[@aosidh]

Surely "ancient Canaan" is just as biblical as "slightly less ancient Israel" 🤔

[@jameshose5043]

They misspoke : Herod Antipas ruled to AD 39 (not BC) - also Philip had not Herod in his name as far as we know, though he was a son of Herod, by one Cleopatra (no relation to the Ptolemies) : he is simply Philip, or Philip the Tetrarch

[@moafro6524]

From the Messiah's role as non-divine, his teaching of the Torah orally, to the Nativity story without its theological constructs, as a bipartisan academic, I am glad Dr. Magness's views align with those of Islam rather than the Greco-Roman embellishments of my Christian brothers. Iimaan = Boosted.😍

[@rogerlafrance6355]

Not hard to find people in the Middle East who still live in the same style adobe huts and tents as they did 4-5 thousand years and still live, think and pray the same way. It would be nice to bring an anthropologist on.

[@DemetriosKongas]

Why was the New Testament written in Greek, the acts of the Apostles in Greek, Paul's epistles in Greek? Were they meant to be read only by the elite or the people? If by the people, then we are talking about a Hellenistic world.

[@ClementColucci]

Is the nose ring new?

[@AlanCanon2222]

I am sure I will like the episode when I sober up tomorrow but Dr Megan is wearing kind of normal glasses like I do and the guest isn't even wearing glasses..... I know that the Misquoting Jesus Podcast goes into heretofore non explored places but the no glasses part.... I am working on it. OK, I figured it out, I have a mini laptop I can just use a grease pencil and draw spectacles on the guest on the glass, scrape it off later, it will be fine, no I do not have a serious fandom problem with Misquoting Jesus and Digital Hammurabi, it's fine (pokes my own glasses back up towards my face.) Best regards to Drs Megan Lewis and Bart Ehrman and guest. Your podcasts not only educate me but keep me sane, year in, year out. Shout out also to Dr Josh Bowen.

[@TheLucanicLord]

A big thank you to the ordinary specs for covering while the wacky ones have a well deserved vacation.

[@OldMotherLogo]

Sounds like Herod the Great got a bad rap. The Gospel accuses him of slaughtering babies when no evidence suggests this ever occurred. Meanwhile, he oversaw the building of the Second Temple and many other building projects that benefitted the people.

[@respectmoney2025]

good point

[@toddhupp]

the essenes which may have included Jesus had the leisure to learn to read and maybe write

[@ChrisHuntley]

When Jodi says the word “worship” does anyone else hear “war ship”?

[@k.c.8658]

Let's bring back BC and AD.

[@respectmoney2025]

it’s already back in this video

[@poppamichael2197]

Thank you for bringing us this interesting and informative interview with Prof. Jodi Magness. It was a delight to hear her. For more than a dozen years I have been buying and enjoying Bart’s courses from The Great Courses organization. Foolishly I assumed Jodi’s courses were covering the same ground. I see now how much I have missed. Jody’s insights as an archaeologist help to illuminate Bart’s insights as a (reformed) minister and religious scholar. Obviously, both are great historians as well, and they bring to their subject a refreshing enthusiasm that is absolutely contagious. My deepest thanks to both Bart and Jodi for helping me, and I assume all of us, to understand the origins of the Judeo-Christian religion. Whenever either of them answers one of Megan’s excellent questions, I sense that I am receiving the distilled benefit of a lifetime of study and reflection.

[@jonwesick2844]

"I'm Larry. This is my brother Darrell and this is my other brother Darrell."

[@jabbahursty]

but how was the year zero jesus birth initially figured?

[@Hoireabard]

If one wanted to interact with God and the only place to do it was the Temple, why did Jesus teach the Lord’s Prayer to worshipers out in the hinterlands?

[@brotherjongrey9375]

If Herod's building projects created jobs, Wouldn't it follow that someone deemed a "laborer" probably worked on one of those projects

[@naradaian]

Re. Bethlehem etc. Mindful of the suffering of Palestinians and Palestinian Christians and Syrian Christians surviving genocide

[@Paul-t1l3q]

Could you please be more specific. Were people being genocided during Herod’s time. Back then the Romans came to call a large area Syria-Palestina. Palestina is Latin for Philistines. Perhaps you’re using the word genocide in the way left wing loons use it today. October 7 2023, 6000 Muslims from Gaza and Israel began burning, burning to death, raping, raping to death, beheading, shooting and kidnapping over 1200 Israeli civilians with intent to continue until all Jews were eradicated from their homeland. These murderous primitives had the intention of wiping out Jews: genocide. Israel responded to this event by fighting back, and in so doing have killed around 40000 combatants and non-combatants. Left wing loons and crazed antisemites try to contort this into extensions of their own sense of victimhood, but you might have a different view of this matter. Islam, Muslims, Shiites, Sunnis, left wing loons, right wing antisemites, all have a wish to exterminate Jews entirely. I’m open to being persuaded by good arguments. Tell me about your genocide.

[@richardgoeltz3769]

Is there evidence to support the “massacre of the innocents”?

[@gk-qf9hv]

Why do we assume that almost everybody in the area was Jewish?

[@norbertjendruschj9121]

Megan´s voice sounds like she cought a cold.. So I hope It´s nothing serious.

[@Theshamanomar]

Or you’re referring to it as Palestine because that was the name of it at the time of Jesus perhaps?!

[@MH55YT]

How was Jesus from the line of David?

[@JeremyKu]

He wasn't.

[@MH55YT]

@@JeremyKu So he couldn't have been the prophesized messiah?

[@JeremyKu]

@@MH55YT Nope

[@MaxExpatr]

There are lineages in the Gospels and the Old Testament.

[@MH55YT]

@@MaxExpatr Where? Matthew 1:1-6 says Joseph was from the lineage of Dave, but not Jesus.

[@car-or-ock616]

Subsistence living and the practice of leaving the fields fallow every seventh year must have been an explosive mix. The Romans hired farm hands to work on construction projects in the year fields were not worked. Among the constructions of Herod the Great, of particular interest for the gospels is the fortress of Machaerus on the eastern side of the Dead Sea where the Baptist was executed, most likely in 37 CE. The question about educating women and teaching them to read and write is fundamental. However, outside of the rabbinical class and other elites, the question of literacy puts the figure of Paul in much higher relief. Did it require a scribe to write a letter or a gospel? With Jesus and the apostles being Torah worshiping Jews, it has always made sense to me to speak about them as 'Early Christians.' A moniker that also helps to separate the 'Jesus movement' from Romanized Christianity (Constantine in 313 CE; Theodosius in 380 CE). It becomes increasingly difficult to see the Early Christians as not being in direct, political conflict with the Temple caste, the Herodian clan and the Roman order. Were they Josephus's 'Fourth Sect'? Was Judas Iscariot a Sicari? One alternative to the Temple of Jerusalem was the Samaritan temple on mount Gerizim (5th and 2nd centuries BCE). Pilate's massacre there, and the leaders he arrested (and most likely crucified) is also of particular interest in the charged years of the 36 - 37 CE. Was one of those years a Sabbatical when the farm hands were idle? The paring of a messianic figure with a rabbi is particularly interesting. In the first century Josephus pairs Judas the Galilean with Zadok the Pharisee, the two he credits with founding the Zealot movement in the 1st-century. Is this a monicker for the Early Christians? The writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Sicari? Although Josephus is a flawed witness-a Galilean general during the war against Rome (66-70 CE) who turned and became a Flavian-the importance of his writing cannot be ignored. It is contemporary to Paul's letters, and predates the gospels by a century or two. Was the house where the Pentecost was celebrated (Acts 2) near the Mount of Olives? The birth of Jesus is couched in the time of the census of Quirinius, the 'escape' of Judas the Galilean, and a flight to Egypt. Most likely such a flight would proceed along the spice route that led through Petra. Petra was famous for producing frankincense and myrrh. Traditionally part of the gifts presented by the Three Kings/Magi (Matt 2). During the gold rushes of the late 1800s in British Columbia and the Klondike wagon roads were built with inns or 'road houses' spaced 5, 10 and 25 miles apart, comporting to the distance travelled in a day by people walking on foot, and wagons pulled by oxen, mules and horses. Likewise the missions in California, from the Napa Valley to San Diego are spaced 25 miles apart, or one day's walking journey. When the pioneer roads were upgraded in the West, they made possible travel by stage coaches at far greater speeds. In Roman times, only high ranking officials travelled by horse. People walked. Thus the real question about an inn at Bethlehem would center on whether or not Bethlehem was on a principal route. On such roads the chronology of development might well be to build an inn or road house first, before a hamlet established itself around it. The proximity of farms and orchards being another determining fact. In Acts 9, 22, and 26 Paul fell to the ground-no horse is mentioned (though a horse appears in Caravaggio's great altar piece for S. M. del Popolo). Thus, indicating that Paul was possibly travelling on foot.

[@shaduck06]

thanks - Palestine!

[@respectmoney2025]

Dr Magness dressed so fancy! such elegance , we should call her Dr Magnificent

[@ranilodicen4460]

and the temple priests ate all those meats offered to the gods

[@rationalpear1816]

anyone know if jesus was read to from the torah in hebrew, or an aramaic translation. he seems to understand jewish law, but if he was being taught in hebrew and he didn’t know the language other than thru its similarity to aramaic that seems like something that would be a problem for him ministering or interpreting jewish law.

[@garrygraham]

Jesus could read. In Luke 4, he began his public ministry by reading from the Torah, which would have been in Hebrew, from the Book of Isaiah... “And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up, and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovery of sight to the blind, To set free those who are oppressed, To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.” And He closed the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭4‬:‭16‬-‭21‬ ‭LSB‬‬ bible.com/bible/3345/luk.4.16-21.LSB The expression of doubt by the esteemed scholar as to whether Jesus could read is rather bemusing, based on that NT Scripture alone. Why would she have any doubt at all?

[@GameTimeWhy]

​@@garrygrahamyeah and it also has Jesus private conversations and him rising from the dead. Do you believe everything in the Bible?

[@tirusew]

You look different without your glasses, almost didn’t recognize you

[@GilesMcRiker]

Breaking news: Bart found Jesus in Antarctica

[@respectmoney2025]

get a life please

[@clawedsimian]

Funny, I always assumed Herod was a title because there were multiple of them. Never even occurred to me it was just some jerk naming all his kids after himself.

[@dbarker7794]

The King Herod Grill was a huge success.

[@liteenergy4843]

I've recently heard from a video by someone who has a Masters Degree in Jewish history that most Jewish men could read Hebrew. This is because Jewish men had to read the Torah. It was a mandate, not an option. In a sense the Jews had a kind of universal education for men even in the centuries before Christ. Whether this extended to Greek speaking Jews living outside of Israel who had a Greek version of the Torah, Idk.

[@paradisecityX0]

September 11, 3 BC to be precise.

[@EvilXtianity]

LOL

[@paradisecityX0]

LOL what's your beef?

[@EvilXtianity]

@@paradisecityX0 You're asserting a very precise date of birth for a fictional character.

[@paradisecityX0]

Ah you're one of "those" 🤣

[@EvilXtianity]

@@paradisecityX0 _Ah you're one of "those"._ Ah, and you're one of "those". So, provide the single-best evidence you have that Jesus existed.

[@kweassa6204]

ouch.. take care of yourself, doctor!

[@jenniferunderwood951]

For more exploration people should watch Dave Stotts “Drive thru History, The Gospels “ and reading Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Jesus “.

[@jenniferunderwood951]

Dave Stotts drives his Land Rover thru Jerusalem and Galilee. He passed away in 2022, he also filmed a series covering Acts through Revelation.