EPISODE · Oct 15, 2017 · 28 MIN
2.7 Under Persia: Farewell to the Tanakh
from History in the Bible · host Garry Stevens
The Jews have a placid existence under Persian rule, and create Judaism. They reconstruct their religion, one now without kings and prophets. From on, the Law is all. I discuss the last of the books of the Tanakh: the romances of Esther and Judith, the hateful but mercifully brief prophet Obadiah, and the funniest book in the canon, Jonah.
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