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

Today we continue our examination of the context of the world of Jesus.

In our last episode we covered the context of Judaism specifically,

whereas today we will cover the context of the surrounding culture.

Yep, we got two things that we need to point out before we get started.

One is that we got a presentation for you.

Hopefully another one that will be very helpful in your learning process.

And the other is that we got one more week, one more discussion with special guest,

Jim Fling. This is it. At least for now. So you come back next time.

You have rocketed straight to the top of the charts as the most often appearing guest host.

That's right. That's right. I think it might be tied with Kevin.

I think Kevin was in three. Was he? I thought he only had two appearances.

I think we got him for three. So I don't know. I'll have to check your top of the charts.

The tie back for next week. All right.

I liked that.

Tied for first at the very least. And I think in solidly in first place.

But I'm a lot of a little bit of a check. I don't like to lose.

There you go. Very apropos for discussion.

It's all about me. That's right.

All right. Speaking of which. So here's what we did.

We've been trying to set the context for the ministry in life of Jesus.

By trying to introduce us to the world, the world that Jesus lived in was very unique.

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