30 The Story of Israel
Taken from THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD
author: N T Wright
contributor: SPCK - N T Wright
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The Story of Israel, 587 bc–ad 70
The story of second-temple Judaism is one of tension and tragedy. The Babylonians had destroyed the first Temple in 587 bc. Ever since then, those who looked to Jerusalem, and its Temple, as the centre of their homeland, and as their very raison-d’être as a people, had been faced with the mounting tension between the faith they professed and the facts they perceived…
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