This is the Bamaul Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we begin our journey into the historical context of the world of Jesus,

looking at the new Judaism that arose from the ashes of exile.

Yeah. This whole, I don't know how many podcasts we're going to be looking at,

like 10 podcasts we're going to do on the context of the world of Jesus before we jump into the

biblical text. So critical context is everything. Speaking of context. Yes. We have a special guest again.

We have a lot of things, but but special guest, Jim Fight, here again, Bama Studios.

Here you are still staying and studying under the rabbi. That's right. That's right.

Still here to add his two cents. Appreciate it having him in on the intro podcast. We also,

by the way, have a presentation that you want to pull up. Be very helpful. Lots of photos and

pictures. We're going to be talking about some things today. Take sure you're a heavy presentation.

Yeah. That's very much so. So definitely pull it up. It's going to be very useful. It's going to be a lot

of that in this session. I think a lot of pictures because context is so important, like I was saying.

Funny story. Aaron Kouch and I were in Turkey doing some scouting this last year.

And we were at Antalya, which is the port on the south side of Turkey, modern day Turkey,

Asia Minor and Biblical Day, where same harbor that Paul would have sailed into for a

little bit of context. And a bunch of tourist groups go there all the time and they go on these

boats to sail in and out of the harbor that Paul came into. Well, all the boats that leave early

in the morning pull out of the harbor and they play. My heart will go on as they pull out. No.

And Aaron looked over at me and said, boy, context matters, doesn't it? Yeah.

Not the song that I want planned for me as I pull out of harbor on a ship.

Casey don't know the reference. That is from the movie Titanic. Oh, man, I can feel like an

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