Between Testaments
Undeceptions with John Dickson
What Happened After 500 B C?
After 500 b c, there's a tussle between the persians to the east and the rising power of the greeks in the west. The world is about to get very greek. Alexander the great turns this tussle into a tornado. And from his time onwards, the jews are no longer looking to the east towards persia and mesopotamia. They are now looking west towards the n and greek culture. But mostly what they did was they took ther traditional views, the threads of their traditional views, and weaved them on this new gloom.
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