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lecture for everything you need to know about Ancient Judaism,
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to put the New Testament into its historical context.
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So you'll just have to survive
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these two very historical survey lectures,
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because it's material that you need to know.
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I'll try to make it as interesting as I humanly can do.
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We now find the New Testament in the same book as the Old Testament,
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as Christians call it;
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and as Jews call it, the Hebrew Bible or the Tanakh.
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Clearly early Christianity has got to be studied in the context
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of Ancient Judaism, and so we'll do so next time.
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We'll look at the Jewish context, for example,