The original CHRISTmas story, the account as told to H.E. Theophilus by the physician Luke

www.box.com Gospel of LUKE 

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Political and religious background during the life of Jesus and the generation immediately after.

ANCIENT ROME:

The Rise and Fall of an Empire

BBC Series

Part 2: Nero (the Roman emperor who persecuted Christians, including Paul who wrote the letters to early Christian churches that make up half of the New Testament of the Christian Bible)

Part 3: Jewish Rebellion (destruction of Temple in 70 A.D. according to the Jewish historian Josephus, who also mentioned Jesus in his other writings)