In this episode Jonathon takes a break from the narrative to explore the history of Christmas. Well, some of it. It's a pretty long history. No potluck guests this week. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals! --- Support this podcast: https://podcas

In this week's episode we meet some really friendly characters like Nero and Domitian, Christians start to be called Christians, and something bad happens to Jerusalem...again. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/post

In this episode, Jonathon is joined by Diandra Nelson to talk about the apostle Paul, who seemed to go by many names and who may have been kind of ugly. Also, he wrote a third of the New Testament and has had a huge role in shaping our understanding of th

So, we got ALL of the back story out of the way, now we can start to get to the meat of the podcast: telling the story of the church. But exactly where do we start? The logical place seems to be Jerusalem, since this is where the church as a post-Jesus or

So, using historical-critical methodology, what can we feel confident saying about the Jesus of history? There are a few things. Friend of the show Jimmy Doyle pointed me towards the works of Luke Timothy Johnson and EP Sanders, who, independently of each

It’s important to remember that Judaism wasn’t a static religion in the first century. In fact, there wasn’t a single Judaism, there were multiple Judaisms. But they all seem to have had a few things in common: number one, they were all fiercely monotheis

Aristobulus must have felt confident, having deposed his brother and secured the throne. But just outside the borders of his newly won kingdom events were taking place that spelled doom- not just for his reign, but for the independence of the Jewish Kingd

Alexander, whether he visited Jerusalem or not, would have a huge impact not only on the geopolitics of the ancient world, but also on its religions. This included Judaism, a faith that did not yet have global renown, and Christianity, a faith that didn’t

The name of the podcast is Postbiblical, and 99% of our time will be spent talking about what happened after the events of the Bible were recorded. But in order to get off on the right foot we actually need to get pre-biblical:- that is, we need under