Fall Asleep to the 400 Silent Years | The Books They Tried to Bury

About this episode

This episode explores the 400 Silent Years between the last prophet and the birth of Jesus, discussing the cultural and religious implications of this period and the books that were excluded from the Bible.

Fall asleep to the calm, in-depth story of the 400 Silent Years and the books they left out. Four hundred years between the last prophet and the birth of Jesus. No miracles. No divine announcements. No men in rough clothing yelling judgment in the streets. Just silence — and a collection of books most Bibles don't include. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 - The Last Prophet Closes His Mouth 11:21 - The World After the Last Word — Living in Judah When the Prophets Stop 41:44 - Alexander Kicks Down the Door — When Greek Culture Crashes Into Jewish Faith 01:18:41 - The Maccabees — Blood, Pigs, and a Miracle They Almost Didn't Write Down 01:56:09 - The Books They Left Out — Walking Through the Apocrypha 02:40:07 - The Ones That Got REALLY Weird — Enoch, Jubilees, and the Apocalyptic Underground 03:15:56 - The World Jesus Was Born Into — How the Silence Shaped Everything 03:48:47 - What the Silence Was Trying to Teach Us 04:02:09 - Outro — The Sound After the Silence 📖 IN THIS EPISODE In this documentary-style exploration, we cover: • Why God went silent for 400 years between Malachi and Matthew • The Greek invasion, the Maccabean revolt, and the pig on the altar • Tobit, Judith, Sirach, and the…

Topics covered

• 400 Silent Years
• Apocrypha
• Jewish Faith
• Greek Culture
• Maccabees

Keywords

• silence
• Malachi
• Matthew
• Tobit
• Judith
• Sirach
• Book of Enoch
• Jubilees

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Bibles

Books & works: The World After the Last Word, The Sound After the Silence, Apocrypha, The Book of Enoch

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