We have a surprise bonus episode this week! Join us on a journey to 1st Century Judea with Life of Brian! We'll discuss stoning, Jesus as a revolutionary, Hava Nagila, and more!

Sources:

Jesus as a Revolutionary:

Josephus, The Jewish War, trans. Martin Hammond, intro and notes by Martin Goodman, e-book (Oxford University Press, 2017). "Josephus" In Our Time (2015) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05vfdzl Christopher Klein, "Why did Pontius Pilate Have Jesus Executed?" History https://www.history.com/news/why-pontius-pilate-executed-jesus Holland Lee Hendrix, L. Michael White, Paula Fredriksen, Eric Meyers "Jews and the Roman Empire," A Portrait of Jesus' World: From Jesus to Christ PBS (April 1998). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/portrait/jews.html L. Michael White, Allen D. Callahan, Shayne I.D. Cohen, John Dominic Crossan, Paula Fredriksen, "Arrest and Execution" From Jesus to Christ PBS (April 1998). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/arrest.html Jon Wiener, "Jesus the Revolutionary: A Q&A With Reza Aslan," The Nation (25 July 2013). https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/jesus-revolutionary-qa-reza-aslan/ "The Last Days of Jesus" PBS (2017) https://www.pbs.org/show/last-days-jesus/ "From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, Part One" PBS Frontline (1998) https://youtu.be/JN8FM1NCOSk Tom O'Loughlin and Roland Deines, "Why Study the Pharisees with Professor Roland Deines" University of Nottingham (17 January 2012). https://youtu.be/waWu1ngrxGk "Matthew 5:1-7:29--The Sermon on the Mount" https://www.enterthebible.org/Controls/feature/tool_etb_resource_display/resourcebox.aspx?selected_rid=783&original_id=2 Luke Chapter 6 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/6?37=#50006037 Matthew Chapter 5 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5

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You're Nicked!: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/435851/origin-of-youre-nicked-sunshine#:~:text=The%20word%20is%20used%20teasingly,a%20morose%20person.%20...&text=The%201806%20example%20of%20%22nicked,Journals%20for%201805%20(1806). John Stephen Farmer and William Ernest Henley, A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume Work, Entitled: Slang and Its Analogues (Routledge & Sons, 1905) Princeton University Collection, Google E-Book. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Dictionary_of_Slang_and_Colloquial_Eng/VR1AAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 "To nick," The English We Speak BBC (26 August 2011). https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theenglishwespeak/2011/08/110816_tews_32_to_nick_page.shtml Forrest Wickman, "When You've Been Nicked by the Bobbies: How being arrested in the U.K. differs from being arrested in the U.S." Slate (13 March 2012). https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/03/rebekah-brooks-arrested-how-is-being-arrested-different-in-britain.html

Star Signs:

"Constellations and the Calendar" NASA https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/starfinder2/en/ Olivia B. Waxman, "Where Do Zodiac Signs Come From? Here's the True History Behind Your Horoscope," Time (21 June 2018). https://time.com/5315377/are-zodiac-signs-real-astrology-history/

Stoning:

The Talmud, Sanhedrin 45a, available at https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.44a.14?lang=bi NIV Study Bible. The Tanakh, full searchable text available at https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/63255/jewish/The-Bible-with-Rashi.htm Roy A. Stewart, "Judicial Procedure in Biblical Times," Full text available at https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/eq/1975-2_094.pdf

Hava Nagila:

Harry Belafonte and Danny Kaye Performing Hava Nagila, available at https://youtu.be/t_L1RAVm4js James Loeffler, "Hava Nagila's Long, Strange Trip." My Jewish Learning. Available at https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/hava-nagilas-long-strange-trip/

From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, PBS. Available at https://youtu.be/JN8FM1NCOSk

Background: "How We Made Monty Python's Life of Brian," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/16/how-we-made-monty-python-life-of-brian-michael-palin-terry-gilliam Life of Brian Televised Debate, Friday Night, Saturday Morning, 1979. Full debate available at https://youtu.be/ZYMpObbt2rs