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"Yes. Well, that's the question. The question was, what does it mean? But let's talk a little bit about the temple curtain. This was not like a curtain that we would have in a theater today or somebody's house. This was very, very thick. They say it was the thickness of a hand, a hand width. And it took two years and a lot of women who were employed in this to weave these curtains. And they were temple carton, there's debate about whether there was one or two at the time, but it was very, very thick. And it would require 300 men and very heavy to put it in place and also to raise and to lower it, because it had to be purified, it had to be washed, it had to be dipped into water. But they would wear out, they would change them. So it was supposed to be spectacular. Now that is curtain is described in exodus, but we have reason to believe that the design of the curtain was different in the time of the second temple. And also there's a question among scholars whether there was one curtain or two, because exodus says that there should be two curtains. But josephus, who is our only real source of information about the second temple, says that there was only one curtain, he doesn't mention to her. Now, was he was josephus. I mean, he's the historian. But was he also did I read in your book that he was a priest? Yes, yes. That's why I think we should take that into consideration. This is what I mean like I'm reading your book, and I'm thinking, how did I miss this? Josie fest was a was intimately acquainted with the temple in the time of Jesus. I mean, it's absolutely astonishing that we have this information. Okay, folks, we're talking to the author of the crucifixion of the king of glory, eugenia Constantino will be right back. All right the best you can do is forgive all right and round on the freeze way tell me why relief factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night I was asked that question, well, the owners of relief factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right, designed to heal, and I agree with them. And the doctors who formulated relief factor for them selected the four best ingredients, yes, 100% drug free ingredients, and each one of them helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway. That's the point. So approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. If you've got back pain, shoulder, neck, hip, knee, or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only 1995 to see if it'll work for you. It has worked for about 70% of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered.
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"That was Washington. And he also didn't have wooden teeth. Okay, so the thing we want to talk about. Now today, let's be clear today, I'm talking to my friend George saras. We put it out on rumble a while ago because we recorded it a little while ago, but George is a really dear friend of many, many years, over 20 years, and he's written a delightfully accessible book. Anyway, we'll talk about that with George in the two hours to come. We have a lot to look forward to. I guess I want to mention we have a Socrates and city event February 28th, which if you can't get to New York. Now I know there are people that can't get to New York to go to the event. But honestly, you want to get there if you can get there. Alvin, are you going to be there? Oh, definitely. This is a good one. Oh boy. Are you going to bring one of your wives? Well, I will see if Anne can come because it's the beginning of lent and we want to get it started properly. Well, honestly, it's just, I am so excited about this one. I will be there because I have to be there. I'm the host. But it is February 28th. If you want to meet me or if you don't want to meet me, it's the perfect place to do either one of those two things. February 28th, union league club, but you got to go to stock season city dot com to sign up. And these are, I don't know that we sell the sizzle properly on the Socrates and city website. But these are the club is so beautiful. We have a patrons dinner afterward. That's really, really special. Sometimes people come from out of town. And they want to come to the patrons dinner. It's just really special and you get to meet some other special guests that tend to come to these dinners. So that Socrates in the city dot com that's February 28th and the speaker is the speaker that get my guest is doctor eugenia Constantino, one of the greatest New Testament scholars. But it goes way beyond that. I mean, she has 6 degrees graduate degrees in various disciplines. And she's combined these various disciplines to tell the story of passion week of what we call holy week in a way that no one ever has done before. And it is unprecedented what she has done in this book. And she's managed to write it in a way that anyone can read, which is very, very rare in the world of scholarly writing. It doesn't come across as scholarly, although it is. But it actually was a devotional for me when I read it. And I'm going to reread it in preparation to that event. So that octane city February 28th, union league club. But I do say if you can't come, you can live stream it. We've never done this before. It's super cheap. It's like ten bucks, but I want people around the country to kind of be all tuned in. It's going to be kind of, it'll be cool. It'll be cool. And we're going to have, you know, we've got hayrides and bobbing for apples and face painting for the kids. It's just a festival. And I want you to be there. Yeah, I'm going to make some balloon animals too. Yes, that's right. That's right. So just that kind of fun kind of kooky fun tacky event. So we want you to be there February 28th. Just go to soccer in the city dot com. And the live streaming does not include the bobbing for apples. There's no way virtually to bob for apples. And I apologize. We're working on that. I think the metaverse will make it possible in the future that we'll be able to offer that as well..
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Just that one. Just one twist. Last one. That's it. That was enough. Okay. Do you speak fluent Greek? If so, can you, in the Greek language, express how you feel about the crew? I don't speak fluent Greek, but I speak fluent Greek American. Greek American. Well, I don't know, I can't. Well, no, I always say this. I say, if I meet somebody who's Greek, right? I say, let me Lao calata, Yeti. In a Germany there, speedy mass milia mono aglia. Which means a fool and his money are soon parted. No, it means that my mom is Greek. My Greek is not very good because my mom is German. So growing up in my house, my mom and dad, they didn't speak to each other. They spoke English. So I speak fluent English, but I can speak enough Greek to fool people like with what I just said. I think I made one mistake. But the point is that it's not fluent. So I can get by in Greek. I can understand a lot of Greek. I can speak, we had a guest here, eugenia Constantino, who wrote that brilliant book, the crucifixion of the lord of the cruise fiction of the king of glory. Brilliant book. And she had Suzanne and me to her home in San Diego when we were there. And we were talking, whatever and she said, yeah, we speak kitchen Greek. It's kind of like the basic Greek. It's not, it's not really fluent, but we can get by. So I can get by. But you were supposed to say something about the crew, but I guess you can't, because it says, can I express how are you feeling about the crew? Yeah. Them borrow. Yet, yeah, I'm just going to leave it there. Then bought off. It sounded good. Actually, it's not good. Can you please interview doctor her ramble ups jalapenos? I'm sorry, I filed up this name from the Christmas in New York special. Remember that? I think we can try some filming and editing magic to make that happen. So the question is, can I interview doctor haralambos, camilo Carlos? There you go. The name of the Greek person is camillo Carlos. Yeah, when we did our Christmas special here at TBN, which you can see on rumble, if you look, it's insane. Let me just tell you, you're going to be worried about me. And you should be. But the craziest part, Chris heims and Seth ward, my dear Friends, they kind of bullied me into this. They're like, do you a Greek character? Do you agree? And I was like, what are you talking about? I didn't even know what they were saying because I often just do this crazy Greek stuff. And at some point, I just decided to do it. And I'm actually amazed I did, because I don't normally do stuff like this. But if you watch there's a character named haralambos, and could I interview him so it'll be me interviewing him. Yes, I guess I could do that. And so I want to say to the TBN crew who are asking these questions, yes, challenge accepted..
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I love fishing and enjoyed reading about your fishing adventures in fish out of water. Do you have a favorite fish tail or prized catch other than what you shared in your book? One of the reasons fish out of water is titled fish out of water is because growing up fishing was my main hobby. And there are a million fish stories, not the standard fish stories where you exaggerate, but true fish stories. And I don't know that I share them in the book. I mean, I don't know how, you know, because in the book, the book kind of gets long, but I remember one, oh gosh, when my brother and I were, you know, maybe 11 around that age, we would go to bellmore Long Island because my uncle Joe, San Antonio, and my cousins lived there. And uncle Joe did a lot of fishing, and they had a neighbor mister balk. And he had a boat and every now and again, we would go with their son. We were friends with their son Michael balk. Belle more Long Island. And we would go fishing with them. And I'll never forget one time we were fishing for shiners. There's small bluefish, right? And so you're casting out these tiny minnows behind the boat, you're kind of trolling. Yeah. And I will never forget this. A seagull, a huge seagull, spots the bait in the water, because it's maybe a foot beneath the water. We're pulling this behind the boat. The sea gull goes down, gets the bait and gets hooked. Oh no. Okay. And this is like something out of a movie or at a fairytale. I was suddenly I had a seagull on the line, and the seagull is flying up into the sky like a kite, and you're like, what do we do? Oh, gee. What do we do? Because the seagull is hooked and it's flapping its wings. It was kind of for a kid. It's like a traumatic thing, right? Yeah. But it was an unbelievable thing, but we had to reel it in like a fish. So that we could cut the line, we cut the line, the seagull flew away with the hook and its mouth and the line hanging and by the grace of God, to this day, it makes me, I feel the release when we saw the hook fall out of the seagulls beak. And I was just like, oh my gosh. Well, that's what it was like reeling an angel out of the sky. It was the most insane thing. I think that's what they call fly
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Enough. Okay. Do you speak fluent Greek? If so, can you, in the Greek language, express how you feel about the crew? I don't speak fluent Greek, but I speak fluent Greek American. Greek American. Well, I don't know, I can't. Well, no, I always say this. I say, if I meet somebody who's Greek, right? I say let me Lao color line. In a Germany there, speedy mass milia mono agriculture. Which means a fool and his money are soon parted. No, it means that my mom is Greek. My Greek is not very good because my mom is German. So growing up in my house, my mom and dad, they didn't speak Greek to each other. They spoke English. So I speak fluent English, but I can speak enough Greek to fool people with what I just said. I think I made one mistake. But the point is that it's not fluent. So I can get by in Greek. I can understand a lot of Greek. I can speak, we had a guest here, eugenia Constantino, who wrote that brilliant book, the crucifixion of the lord of the crucifixion of the king of glory. Brilliant book. And she had Suzanne and me to her home in San Diego when we were there. And we were talking, whatever. And she said, yeah, we speak kitchen Greek. It's kind of like the basic Greek. It's not, you know, it's not really fluent, but we can get by. So I can get by. But you were supposed to say something about the crew, but I guess you can't, because it says, can I express how are you feeling about the crew? Yet, yeah, I'm just going to leave it there. Then bought off. It sounded good. Actually, it's not good. Can you please interview doctor her ramble ups chalo pack? I'm sorry, I filed up this name from the Christmas in New York special. Remember that. I think we can try some filming and editing magic to make that happen. So the question is, can I interview doctor haralambos? There you go. The name of the Greek person is camillo Carlos. Yeah, when we did our Christmas special here at TBN, which you can see on rumble, if you look, it's insane. Let me just tell you, you're going to be worried about me. And you should be. But the craziest part, Chris heims and Seth ward, my dear Friends, they kind of bullied me into this. They're like, do you a Greek character? Do you agree? And I was like, what are you talking about? I didn't even know what they were saying, because I often just do this crazy Greek stuff. And at some point, I just decided to do it. And I'm actually amazed I did, because I don't normally do stuff like this, but if you watch, there's a character named haralambos, and could I interview him so it'll be me interviewing him. Yes, I guess I could do that. And so I want to say to the TBN crew who are asking these questions, yes, challenge accepted..
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"Well, okay, so there's a lot here and I want my audience to be tracking with this because we were talking about so many different disciplines. It makes it complicated. Obviously. But so liberal scholars who say the Bible is nonsense. They say, look, there is no evidence of the Hebrew of the Israel Israelites being in Egypt. So you're saying you find evidence from the animals first. Now, again, if we said 30 years ago, 50 years ago to some scholars who believe in the Bible, what is the evidence? Did they have any evidence at that point? How much of this evidence is really new? A lot of it is fairly new, but a lot of it is not. And really it comes back to this. Biblical scholars and you use the term that it requires a lot of disciplines. I'm interdisciplinary, right? I have three master's degrees and a PhD, which makes me educated beyond my intelligence. But the point is, I've studied in the applicable fields in the areas of specialization that would allow me to have the right training in all of these areas. And somebody couldn't have stumbled into all of this Eric. Unless you get the chronology of Israel right, you get the chronology of Egypt, right? You synchronize the two correctly and you have the ability to work with the textual evidence and the writings and with the archeological evidence that comes out of the ground. So you have to have all of these disciplines behind you in order to stumble into this. And the problem was, there really weren't people trained in enough and trained carefully enough in all of the right disciplines. That's the issue. I mean, we see this actually happen again and again, I was interviewing recently a New Testament scholar eugenia Constantino, who's in San Diego, who's written a book called the crucifixion of the king of glory. And because she has several master's degrees and she can look at things she has a law degree. She looks at Roman law from the first century. And in a funny way, only if you have these different pieces, can you pull things out, other people wouldn't see it. So you have a number of master's degrees in these fields. And so you're able to see things that we've never seen before. But it must be daunting in a sense to realize that you are seeing things that no one has seen for centuries, the people have debated at war scoffed at and that now you're bringing the evidence to light. Yeah, and Eric, I can tell you this. This wasn't just an academic experience for me. For me, it was very emotional, very spiritual, and there were times where, you know, with one discovery after another, finding Jacob in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, finding Joseph in ancient hieroglyphics, finding Joseph's two sons in ancient hieroglyphics and all of this is in my new book, origins of the hebrews. But with one discovery after the next, here I am alone in Toronto at my house. And I would just stop what I was doing and weep because I couldn't believe that God would take the chief of sinners the least of all the saints and use him to be the vehicle through which God would reveal this to the world for the first time in over 3450 years. Why me? Right. That's the best, that's the best question. And I think that's what qualifies you as the sense of your own unworthiness, God can work with people like that. And so here you are now, you know, it's kind of an amazing thing for any of us to be alive at a time when these things are coming to light. This is a big deal..
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Welcome back. I'm talking to the author of the crucifixion of the king of glory eugenia Constantino. Jeannie, since you let me call you Jeannie. When I was in your home, susanne and I were looking at the icons. And the cover of the book, which I'm holding up now, it's such a beautiful book, which is not always true of books, but this is a beautiful book. And on the cover, you have the picture you have Jesus from an icon that is in your dining room. And I've never seen this icon before. It's a beautiful, beautiful icon. Talk a little bit about, I mean, I love the idea that in the orthodox church, there's some nuances, the Catholic Church often portrays Jesus on the cross in paroxysms of pain and for some reason the orthodox church tends not to do that. That's right. That's right. It's a good point. May I have the books and I'll show you. Okay, so you're absolutely right about that. The presentation of Jesus on the cross is very different in orthodox iconography because orthodox iconography is not intended to depict realistically what happened historically. I mean, look at you. It's not a photograph. It's not right, because it's theology in line in color. So an icon is teaching us something about what's actually more important. So whenever we depict Jesus on the cross, by the way, king of glory, I wanted a different icon because above his head is the titulus where we know it said Jesus of Nazareth king of the Jews. But in most orthodox icons, it says king of glory, because that's a forgot to show that to you when you saw the whole thing. This has been because of the way they designed it. And I don't know the Greek. What's the Greek word for glory? Because that's what he was. And that, of course, has to do with what St. Paul said if they had known they would never have crucified the lord of glory, but also the Somme, there's a messianic Somme that says lift up your heads and be lifted up you Gates that the king of glory may enter and who is this king of glory, the lord of hosts, so that's a messianic sum. Now, when we see Jesus depicted in an orthodox icon, there is blood. You see that here in his side. There's blood in his hands because he did have a real human body and he really suffered. So we acknowledge that. But he's always looking, look how relaxed the posture is on the cross. Because he went to the cross willingly for our Salvation. That's very important. And that's why his face is at peace. He is relaxed. He's almost as though he's sleeping, and his hands are flat against the wood because he went to the cross. He died for us, willingly. And so the voluntary nature of Christ's passion is very important in the prayers and hymns of the orthodox church, and that's why you see him depicted this way. So, and of course, around his head, we have the on, which is the IM, because he is God. So there's always a theological meaning behind the icon, but that's why he's not shown in agony, and also because we know that he didn't he wasn't crying to God, feeling that abandonment that people identify with psalm 22, my God, my God. I mean, I've corrected that a number of times myself that, I mean, there's so many misconceptions that are hugely popular and hugely perfectly wrong. Ideologically. And one of them is, I mean, we should just say this for people who aren't familiar and you talk about this in the book, that when Jesus spoke, the first line of psalm 22, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Yes. What we forgot most of us is that rabbis and religious Jews would refer to each psalm by the first line. That's right. And so in a sense, by saying the first line, he wasn't merely saying the first line, but he was referring to the entirety of the Somme, which ends gloriously and heroically. That's right. And it's so amazing because again, you go into this and folks, I promise you, you will be blessed by this book, but because Jean you go into the details and some of this stuff, some people will be familiar with, but there's lots of real surprises. And I want to get to some of those because you really, the one thing that sticks out to me that you talk about in the book that I honestly thought, how have I never heard this, is you talk about the parallel that Abraham sacrificing Isaac, we often hear, okay, there's a parallel between Abraham sacrificing Isaac with Jesus going to the cross. And then we hear their parallels of the exodus and the Passover lamb sacrificed with Jesus, the Pascal lamb being sacrificed. But I had never heard about the parallels in Jewish tradition of this era between the story of Abraham and Isaac and the exodus. I have absolutely never heard that..
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Dr. Jeannie Constantinou on the Identity of Mary Magdalene
"We're talking to eugenia Constantino. The book's crucifixion of the king of glory. I hope you will get a copy or several copies. Jeanne, you've done it's a masterwork and I'm just so thrilled that you wrote this. And I hope you're going to write many more books. But I was just talking about you say at some point in the book that in Mel Gibson's the passion, which, in many ways, I think, is a magnificent movie and a work of devotional art. It's not like, hey, you want to see if a movie get the popcorn. It's a work of devotional art. But the identity of the Mary talk about that. Well, it was Mary Magdalene, of course, is the most famous of Jesus's female disciples. And unfortunately, in Mel Gibson's movie, he portrays her as the woman accused of adultery that is very famous story that Jesus saves from being stoned to death, and then she becomes his follower. Well, Mary Magdalene was not even a prostitute. And of course, this is something that's probably going to be surprising to a lot of your listeners or viewers because this is sort of become western tradition that Mary Magdalene was a former prostitute. And the first person ever to say that was a Pope, unfortunately, Gregory the great Gregory, the first who lived around the year 600. 600. Yes, so this is the 14th century's long screw. Yes, yes. Totally. And he made this up and identified herself. Unfortunately, western Christians identify with her as a sinful, former prostitute, I would hate to have somebody say, you know, 600 years later that I was a
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Welcome back. I'm talking to the author of the crucifixion of the king of glory eugenia Constantino. Jeannie, since you let me call you Jeannie. When I was in your home, susanne and I were looking at the icons and the cover of the book, which I'm holding up now, it's such a beautiful book, which is not always true of books, but this is a beautiful book. And on the cover, you have the picture you have Jesus from an icon that is in your dining room. And I've never seen this icon before. It's a beautiful, beautiful icon. Talk a little bit about, I mean, I love the idea that in the orthodox church, there's some nuances, the Catholic Church often portrays Jesus on the cross in paroxysms of pain and for some reason the orthodox church tends not to do that. That's right. That's right. It's a good point. May I have the book and I'll show you. Okay, so you're absolutely right about that. The presentation of Jesus on the cross is very different in orthodox iconography because orthodox iconography is not intended to depict realistically what happened historically. I mean, look at you. It's not a photograph. It's not right, because it's theology in line in color. So an icon is teaching us something about what's actually more important. So whenever we depict Jesus on the cross, by the way, king of glory, I wanted a different icon because above his head is the titulus where we know it said Jesus of Nazareth king of the Jews. But in most orthodox icons, it says king of glory, because that's I forgot to show that to you when you saw the whole thing. This has been because of the way they designed it. And I don't know the Greek. What's the Greek word for glory? Yeah. Because that's what he was. And that, of course, has to do with what St. Paul said if they had known they would never have crucified the lord of glory, but also the psalm, there's a messianic psalm that says lift up your heads and be lifted up you Gates that the king of glory may enter, and who is this king of glory, the lord of hosts, so that's a messianic sum. Now, when we see Jesus depicted in an orthodox icon, there is blood. You see that here in his side. There's blood in his hands because he did have a real human body and he really suffered. So we acknowledge that. But he's always looking at how relaxed the posture is on the cross. Because he went to the cross willingly for our Salvation. That's very important. And that's why his face is at peace. He is relaxed. He's almost as though he's sleeping, and his hands are flat against the wood because he went to the cross. He died for us, willingly. And so the voluntary nature of Christ's passion is very important in the prayers and hymns of the orthodox church. And that's why you see him depicted this way. So, and of course, around his head, we have the on, which is the IM, because he is God. So there's always a theological meaning behind the icon, but that's why he's not shown in agony, and also because we know that he didn't he wasn't crying to God, feeling that abandonment that people identify with psalm 22, my God, my God. I mean, I've corrected that a number of times myself that, I mean, there's so many misconceptions that are hugely popular and hugely perfectly wrong. Theologically. And one of them is, I mean, we should just say this for people who aren't familiar. And you talk about this in the book that when Jesus spoke, the first line of psalm 22, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Yes. What we forgot most of us is that rabbis and religious Jews would refer to each psalm by the first line. That's right. And so in a sense, by saying the first line, he wasn't merely saying the first line, but he was referring to the entirety of the Somme, which ends gloriously and heroically. That's right. And it's so amazing because again, you go into this and folks, I promise you, you will be blessed by this book, but because Jean, you go into the details and some of this stuff some people will be familiar with, but there's lots of real surprises. And I want to get to some of those because you really, the one thing that sticks out to me that you talk about in the book that I honestly thought, how have I never heard this, is you talk about the parallel that Abraham sacrificing Isaac, we often hear, okay, there's a parallel between Abraham sacrificing Isaac with Jesus going to the cross. And then we hear their parallels of the exodus and the Passover lamb sacrificed with Jesus, the Pascal lamb being sacrificed. But I had never heard about the parallels in Jewish tradition of this era between the story of Abraham and Isaac and the exodus. I have absolutely never heard that. How did you discover this? I discovered that as part of my research for the book because I had so you didn't know this. That's what's amazing to me too. How is it that some things I knew, but other things I found out that ended up in the book that I didn't know it I said to myself, how can I I'm a Bible scholar? And I don't know these things because very often in biblical studies, we end up in a very, very narrow field, and then it's not just that we're all umbilical studies, but you're a specialist and gospel of John or book of revelation or whatever it is. And sometimes I hadn't really read a lot of things, especially from Jewish literature. But who has. This is what's so amazing, is that you dove into Jewish literature and Jewish scholars who don't believe Jesus Messi, so they're kind of letting their hair down. And they're letting it all hang out. They're talking and talking, they think, just among themselves. And then in the future, somebody like you happens to listen to conversation and you go, oh my goodness. That's right. And there was more of that I really wanted to include, but I couldn't really bring all the connections together. I didn't have time to do the further research, but there were very other things about Passover that are still in the back of my mind. Maybe I should go back and see if I could really make the case that there's even more connection, but it was a little bit more difficult. It wasn't so obvious.
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Folks, welcome to the Eric metaxas show, sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals, visit legacy p.m. investments dot com that's legacy p.m. investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric metaxas show with your host, Eric the taxes. Folks, welcome back. I continue my conversation with eugenia Constantino author of the crucifixion of the king of glory. How would we say this in Greek Genie, the crucifixion of the king of glory? I know. I get it. I get it. To this doxy. This doxy is the ending. The crucifixion of do. To vasilii, this diversity is the opposite. These doxy is the endings that I get screwed up. So I'll Greek. Okay, so we're talking about many things, but I want to say, because I haven't that to me, this book would be perfect thing for people to read during lent, what you have here really is in many profound ways it's a work of devotion. It's devotional literature that when you read this, even though it's history and theology, it's very readable. It's beautifully written. And it's a work of devotion. And I think that if people are looking for more in the relationship with God, this is the kind of a book that I would say grab this book and give it to your friends who are looking for the same thing because we need more of this. If there were tons of books like this, I wouldn't have to praise your book, but I really do. So we're talking about things that you discovered that were important during the time of Jesus that we've forgotten and so let's go back to the story of Isaac, you say that the Jews saw the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac as central and they relate it to the exodus. Now, do they relate it to the Passover lamb? So they didn't I don't know that they related it to the Passover lamb, but they definitely related it to Passover, so they always identified Isaac is the reason why God delivered them from Egypt and because of this, you may have a connection. Of course, Abraham did not sacrifice a lamb when Isaac was not sacrificed. He sacrificed a ram, which is a still a sheep, but a full grown male shape. So there's a connection there with Jesus Christ. It was not a child. See, this is another. Another timeout. That's huge. What you just said, I know it's in the book, but I kind of glanced over it. Yes. I don't know that I've ever heard that. Please say this again. Well, when Abraham was stopped from sacrificing his son, he was stopped and he looked up and he saw a ram whose horns were caught in a thicket and that is that it was standing the idea is that it was standing on its hind legs and his head was cut, so it was standing up at his hind legs. So he went and took the ram and offered the ram as a sacrifice. So when Passover came around when there was a temple, of course the Jews don't have animal sacrifice anymore because the temple was destroyed. But they were required at Passover to sacrifice a lamb. So they wouldn't have them all sacrifice rams that would have been just too big of an animal. So they sacrificed a lamb..
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"And I'm just so thrilled, what led you, doctor Constantino, to this. I mean, this has been something that's been happening over a number of years, and then it finally clicked I should write about it. Yes, for many years because I've been preaching on teaching about the crucifixion of Christ for a very long time in the trials of Christ. And as an attorney, I was very fascinated in many of the details of the trials. We have been talking about prophecies and other historical things, but there's a lot about pilot about the Jewish leaders. It's absolutely fascinating. And so I decided to put this in a book. And as I researched because I wanted it to be a very strong book, I found out so many things that were quite fascinating. Some of the things we're talking about here. But it's also because I'm so disappointed that so many people who are part of my profession, biblical scholars are so willing to dismiss these things as unhistorical because they just, I don't know if they don't bother to dig deeply enough, but they don't have a faith perspective at all. So we accept these on the basis of faith, but there is actual historical evidence to support what is in the gospels and rather than believing the gospels as credible sources of historical information, which historians Roman historians accept, by the way. Bible scholars are just too anxious to prove how open minded they are and how honest they are and how unbiased they are. They're willing to just say that these things never happened. And I just find that horrific. They just want to, you know, they just want to be fair to both sides. They have to they have to talk about Satan's point of view. You know what I mean? Hey, hey. Something like that. Why not? Why not? But they think that they're more intelligent than the rest of us. No, no, they don't. They're afraid. They're afraid someone might think they're not that intelligent. So they have to pander to the intellectual skeptics. That's right. I mean, look, we see this all over the place. I'm more in the evangelical world. I try to steer clear of the main God forbid, you know, we're talking about mainline Protestant, quote unquote, theologians, because they're effectively enlightenment, rationalists and agnostics. So our Catholics, unfortunately, today, the same thing. Many Catholics. We know this. And we always have to be really clear that there is a ton of bad information out there. I mean, I've seen this in writing most of my books that people misrepresented bahnhof or for decades and decades. These were people that were theologically and politically very liberal. And they profoundly misrepresented him. And I didn't want to correct that. I just thought, I just want to tell the story in a fun readable way. It's so fascinating and amazing. So we're talking to eugenia Constantino, the book is the crucifixion of the king of glory. There's more to come. Don't go away. Folks, I hope you're enjoying this half as much as I am. I'm talking to doctor eugenia Constantino, who is a scholar in a number of disciplines and who's written a wonderful book called the crucifixion of the king of glory. The amazing history and sublime mystery of the passion. Eugenia, I guess I want to say that it seems to me when I wrote my book is atheism dead. There's a parallel in the sense that I think this information has been out there, but no one seems to know about it. And it's about time that we get this information out to people. What I write about in that book is different from what you write. But at the same time, the concept is the same. This is tremendous evidence, bolstering the historicity of the scripture, the veracity of the story of Jesus. And so many people, including Christians, especially Christians, are unaware of this. And so it's vital that we get this information out because I always forget the reference, but where it says in the scripture that, you know, when the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the lord will raise up a standard against it. It feels like the enemy has come in like a flood, the level of skepticism cultural Marxism. Has been profound, ridiculous. And yet at the same time, information is coming up through books like ours. So I'm just so excited that now is when you chose to write your book because people need to read this stuff. So.
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"There are many, many parallels about the binding of Isaac with the story of Jesus. And after walking for three days, this is again Jewish tradition. You won't find this unless you read Jewish authors, which is what I did in my research. You'll find that they arrived at mount moriah and he was going to sacrifice Isaac on that specific date. And then later, rabbis would talk about this and they would say that Isaac carried the wood for the sacrifice as one who carries his cross on his back because he carried the wood on his back. Wait, wait, wait, the Jewish writers mention the cross. They don't mention the cross of Jesus. They say Isaac carried the wood for the sacrifice on his back the way a man carries his cross. Well, no, that's what I'm saying, but they mentioned yes, they do well with the way a man carries his this is the Jewish writer. Yes, yes. They don't believe Jesus is the messiah. That's right. But they're making this parallel themselves. They are. And these parallels were made before the crucifixion of Christ. You see, that's the important thing. They were not people would say, well, they would just got this idea from the crucifixion. No, no, no. Most of these ideas and parallels were recognized among first century Jews before the rise of Christianity. And that's very important. This means that God prepared the Jewish people for the coming of the messiah and for the death of the messiah in this particular way. So many, many Jews. We get this idea that the Jews did not accept Jesus, but that is not true. Thousands and thousands of believers in Jerusalem itself came to faith in Jesus Christ, and this was after Pentecostal remember the death of Jesus was only weeks prior, and they all knew who he was, and they all knew how he died. So if we read the book of acts, we can see how the church grew in Jerusalem, so many, many people were able to make that connection. Okay, here's the question, why haven't we heard about this? Because this is big news to me. This is important. Groundbreaking scholarship on your part that you're making this connection. What's the last time anyone made this connection? Is it 2000 years ago? Is it too many years ago? I think that this is known as among some Bible scholars. They get this and they know these things, but that was my point in writing the book. These are things that are kind of known and we could say upper echelons of scholarly circles. But it hasn't really come down to the people in a way that they can understand. And explain to them that the true significance. And this is just one thing. We're still talking about Isaac. There are so many other amazing things that I discovered that are parallels. And the crisis of fulfillment of so many prophecies and expectations for the Jewish people. So it's not that it's unknown. I didn't discover something brand new that nobody else knows. I just read all of these different books and articles. And I brought all of this information forward. Okay, I mean, that's kind of what I was saying about that. That's the benefit of you. I mean, the book right here is atheism dead. I didn't discover these things, but I thought to myself, yet no one knows these things, so I need to write about it in a popular way because this stuff is too fascinating for everyone not to know. We need to know this. So this is why I'm so excited about your book because it's a book for everybody. And nothing could be more important than what you write about in this book. So the book again, folks, it's called the crucifixion of the king of glory, the amazing history, and sublime mystery of the passion by eugenia Constantino. Now, let's go into some more of the parallels and the things that you've discovered..
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I'm a generalist, I don't have a PhD, but generally speaking, I find that people who are generalists or people who work rather than saying maybe generalists or popularizers or populists, multidisciplinary. And when you're multidisciplinary, it gives you some times an opportunity to see things from a perspective that the experts don't see. You can put you can connect dots because you're at some remove in a way. And that's I think your strength and so in this new book because we talked with you last year, but in the new book, the crucifixion of the king of glory, the amazing history and sublime mystery of the passion. You do this. So help us understand the way into this. What do you cover here? And what is your perspective that's different? Yes, thank you very much for asking that question, Eric, because there is a difference. And you've made an excellent point by speaking about yourself as a generalist and a person who has a perspective from a long view about history and other current topics. Well, me as a Bible scholar, I'm in the weeds. I'm in the thick of all of the details of this subject, but the reason why my book is different, I think. I haven't read anything like it before, is not only am I a biblical scholar, but I'm also an attorney. I have a lot of expertise reading medical records from my years as an attorney. And also, I have a background, some background in Roman law because I wrote my thesis for Harvard divinity in Roman trial procedures in the first century in the provinces. So I'm wanting to answer a lot of questions. My problem is when I was reading books about the crucifixion or Bible commentaries. It seems that nobody combined all of the different skills and expertise that I think I bring to this subject.
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Folks, welcome to the Eric metaxas show sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals, visit legacy p.m. investments dot com that's legacy p.m. investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric metaxas show with your host, Eric the Texas. Folks, welcome back. I continue my conversation with doctor eugenia Constantino or as it's properly pronounced evian Constantino. Or closer, closer to that. Doctor eugenia Constantino, you are the author most recently of this book. The crucifixion of the king of glory, the amazing history and sublime mystery of the passion. So what else will we find in this book that we ought to know? Well, I think you're going to find it very fascinating just, for example, that is its description of the temple. And so this was something that, again, I've been hearing about the temple as Christians growing up. We hear about Jesus and the temple. But what's the temple was really like? What went on there? Why Jesus cleanse the temple. This sort of thing is really important because what we find is that the important people who are central to the trial and crucifixion of Christ are the chief priests. And the level of corruption among the chief priests and the high priest in first century Judaism is astonishing. And again, all of this information I got from Jewish sources. We have Jewish sources that talk about the corruption and also the other aspects of temple worship that is quite fascinating. And the book describes the temple. What was it really like if you were to go there? What would you have seen? Where did you find where did you, what sources did you use? Because I had no kidding in my most recent book, I go into the whole temple thing and I've been reading about it recently and it really has opened up a whole world to me so really now hugely excited to read your book just for that. So what sources did you read and what did you discover? Of course, we have the first century sources people like philo of Alexandria and flavius josephus. And also the mishnah describes certain aspects of temple worship. That's the Jewish that was the oral law that was later written down after the time of Christ, but also there are modern historians and archeologists who have recreated this and it will discuss this extensively, but usually you have to be a scholar to know how to find this information. And this is why the book is, I think, useful to people because you don't have to do your own research to try to get to the because I mean, there were many things that I learned that I didn't know. And I have a Bible scholar. So I'm thinking, how is it that I did not know these things? And yet, you know, how can we expect other people to know them? So as you mentioned, it's very important to our faith that we affirm the historicity of the gospels. I want to give you one thing that I found out that was very fascinating. I had learned this before, but I think you might find this interesting. You know, when Jesus predicts the destruction of the temple, he says to the disciples, do you see this? Because they are looking at the temple and it was so beautiful it was so opulent. He says there will be not one stone left upon another. And, you know, this was his prediction. And I never understood why that was the case because as a Greek, you know, and I know we have a lot of temples that are still standing even the temple of Athena in Athens. The Parthenon is still, even though it was blown up, you know, by when the Turks were storing gunpowder there. You know, that's right. Nonetheless, it still standing. So how is it that the temple at Jerusalem? There's nothing left of it, not even one stone. Jesus prophecy was fulfilled exactly the way he said. Well, that's because there was so much gold in the temple that when the temple caught fire because the Jews rebelled against the Romans. All of the gold that was embellishing the temple melted and it ran in between the cracks of the stones and after the war was over people or after the Romans left people went and they scavenged the site and they took it apart stone.
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Dr. Jeannie Constantinou on 'The Crucifixion of the King of Glory'
"Doctor eugenia Constantino, you are the author most recently of this book. The crucifixion of the king of glory, the amazing history and sublime mystery of the passion. So what else will we find in this book that we ought to know? Well, I think you're going to find it very fascinating just, for example, that is its description of the temple. And so this was something that, again, I've been hearing about the temple as Christians growing up. We hear about Jesus and the temple. But what's the temple was really like? What went on there? Why Jesus cleanse the temple. This sort of thing is really important because what we find is that the important people who are central to the trial and crucifixion of Christ are the chief priests. And the level of corruption among the chief priests and the high priest in first century Judaism is astonishing. And again, all of this information I got from Jewish sources. We have Jewish sources that talk about the corruption and also the other aspects of temple worship that is quite fascinating. And the book describes the temple. What was it really like if you were to go there? What would you have
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"eugenia constantino" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Well, we've got one big announcement, but before I get to that, I want to say Jim kunstler. I don't want to brag about him when he's on the air with me because I don't want to embarrass him. But he is an amazing writer. His books are brilliantly written and hilarious, even when he's writing about serious stuff. So he wrote a book called the geography of nowhere that is about kind of what happened to America and how highways and 6 lane highways have just kind of taken over everything. But it's so brilliant that it changed the way I see things. And I read it back in gosh, this was in the 90s. So I want to talk to him about that. But he's somebody too that he came from a kind of like a liberal secular democratic point of view. And I think he has migrated more to where I am. So I'm fascinated with that. I don't know if I'm going to get into that. But he's just a big deal. And so I am thrilled that I get to talk to him for both hours today. I just want to introduce this audience to Jim kunstler. And you can go, I can't even say the name of his blog because it's too vulgar. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not kidding. I'm actually not kidding. In that case, I'm not kidding. So I want to say, my guest is Jim kunstler today. And I both ours. And I really do feel he's a phenomenon. You may not agree with him about everything, but he's brilliant. He's a free thinker in the best sentence. He's not afraid to just go where the facts. He's what people call a hidden gem. He's what people call a hidden gem. Or at least. Okay, tomorrow, we have eugenia Constantino that's Greek. Oh my gosh, she is one of my favorite guests, she has written a book. What's the title of the book? About the crucifixion. It is spectacular. Ladies and gentlemen, it's amazing. Don't miss it tomorrow. Okay,.