This is the Baymau podcast with Marty Salman. I'm his GoHos Brent Billings. Today we continue

our look at the responses to Hellenism in the world of first century Judaism, this time

examining the group known as Herodians. Yeah, and again we're going to eventually get into

a presentation with a few photos just to try to help. I haven't understood you need to learn

for this, but here's the roadmap I want to take today for this discussion. I want to start by

explaining the Herodians in concept. I want us to think about it, try to relate to it, reflect on it,

and then I want to look at the presentation. I want to, and as we do, I want us to be able to

really reflect on it even more deeply. So that's the roadmap I want to take today about.

So our Herodians, is that a term that we see in the Gospels? It is. It's going to be used twice

in your Gospels at least. I think it's twice. It's at least twice. There may be a few more uses.

It's used in Josephus. Josephus will talk about their Herodians. We are going to use a term

very loosely. Pretty much all of our terms are going to use very loosely for the sake of our

conversation. A ton of historical debate, like I said, a fun discussion tool would just be to

spend some time doing some research on these groups and see what you can find and talk about it.

Well, I'm assuming, you know, just in the history of the United States, the terms Republican and

Democrat have shifted dramatically over the course of a couple centuries. So I'm assuming that

it's probably a similar kind of idea where, you know, maybe at one point immense something and

a different point immense something else. Right. Yeah. So I'm sure of, I mean, this is one of my

favorite portions of our whole book. In essence, it's the beginning of session three. It's kind of

the center of our. They move. Oh, wow. It's one of our, it's one of my favorite portions of the

whole study that we'll do. But I'm sure of a true historian, like a PhD, like they wouldn't be

listening to our podcast anyway. But if they were, they would just lose their mind over the oversimplified

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