S1 E12: Messianic Judaism and the First Jewish Revolt

04/01/21 • 34 min

Don't mention the war!
As Jews we have to mention the war. In this episode we take a look at the reasons for, and the inevitability of the First Jewish Revolt, given the inadequacies of Roman governance both in Judea and in Rome itself. We also explore the various types of responses to the revolt and how the nascent Messianic Jewish movement fit into the series of events. It truly was a tragic time, and we have to cover the tragic response of the greater non-Jewish church that made the tragedy the cause célèbre for its wholesale pivot to replacement theology, the fruits of which continue to be born even today.

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In this longer episode, we explore the mostly unexplored, the presence of Jewish disciples of Yeshua around the Jewish world between the time when Jacob (James) the brother of John and the outbreak of the first Jewish revolt when the disciples fled to Pella, east of the Jordan. In this episode we see the development of Messianic Jewish networks and communities in the homeland of the Jewish people, to the north towards Antioch, to the East towards Babylon, and to the South beyond Alexandria and into Africa. We note the travels of the twelve Shlichim (Apostles) throughout and beyond the Jewish world, but always to the Jew first. Furthermore, we not a couple of the factors that began to separate Jewish and Gentile disciples.

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S1 E13: Ebionites, Nazarenes, and More

In this episode we explore the lives and situations of Yeshua's Jewish followers in the period between the two great Jewish Wars, which ended in 70 and 135 CE respectively. We ask and answer:

Where did Jewish disciples of Yeshua live?
Did they interact with other Jews? With Gentiles?
Did they have communities of their own? And what were these communities like?
What distinguished their beliefs and way of life from other Jews and Gentile Christians?
What was the reaction of the Jewish and Gentile Christian worlds to them?

This is a critical period in the history of the Nascent Messianic Jewish Movement, and one that is vastly under-reported in both Jewish and Christian histories. You will enjoy quotations from both Jewish and Secular sources of the day, however, which tell us that this Movement was far from insignificant!

On Messianic Judaism - S1 E12: Messianic Judaism and the First Jewish Revolt

Transcript

E012 Messianic Judaism and the First Jewish Revolt: Don’t Mention the War!

Introduction

Welcome to the On Messianic Judaism Podcast. This is episode 12 in our series, called Messianic Judaism and the First Jewish Revolt.

Before we get going though, I want to tell you that my latest book has just been published by Wipf and Stock’s academic imprint, Pickwick Press. I’m really excited about this, and it touches on a lot of the things we are talking about in this podcast.