This is a history lesson to help understand the intersection of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Zealots with one another as well as with the Roman government. It helps us see why each group had the concerns that they did about Jesus. We will discuss how the disputes between the written Torah and the oral Torah would ignite the world’s first religious war, the Maccabean Revolt. The oppressive rule of the Greeks and Romans over the Jewish people led to the building of the magnificent Holy Temple and also its destruction less than 100 years later. I hope to show you more deeply why the peaceful message from Jesus was not what the people were looking for in a Messiah, and additionally, the signposts as to why listening to him at that time might have changed the world. It still can.

Show Notes

This is the outline for this episode of Working With The Voice:

• The direct teaching in the Sermon on the Mount vs parables and healings
• Content of material vs context
• The recording of time
• Written Torah and the oral Torah that became the Talmud
• Hellenization
• The Maccabean Revolt
• Roman rule and brutality
• Herod the Great
• The building of the Great Temple
• Taxation of the Jews
• Pharisees, Sadducees, Zealots and the destruction of the Temple in 70AD
• The influence of non-violence on history

Resources mentioned:
Expanded information about the oral and written Torah:
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3347866/jewish/What-Is-the-Talmud.htm
http://theologicalperspectives.com/the-laws-of-clean-and-unclean
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/torah-scroll/

Wikipedia page on Herod the Great
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great

Wikipedia page on the Maccabean Revolt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabean_Revolt

Wikipedia page on The Timeline of Jerusalem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Jerusalem

Brutality of the Roman Soldier
https://www.academia.edu/10776796/Killing_Beyond_the_Battlefield_Brutality_and_the_Roman_Soldier

I look forward to hearing from you after you listen to this episode!

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