
Chris McKinny and Kyle Keimer – The History and Archaeology of Christmas (Part 1)
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The Hellenistic Worldview
i'm going to try and present the most oncise ah, up to date gind of bring us up to speed as i can. So we'll start kind of inte the fourth century with the coming of the greeks. And their dynasties for the next 100, 50 years or so are the ptolemis in egypt and the saleucids in syria and mesopotamia. This really causes a conflict within judaism. There are some jews that adopt a hellenistic world view, there are some that don't. It leads to a bifircation. Then, as we move into the second century, we see the rise of
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