Intertestamental period
203How Alex Conquered the World
19 Aug 2024
43:42¶ 132
“Anyhow, to step back for a moment and to sum up, we call it the 400 silent years because after Nehemiah and Malachi there…”
44:11¶ 133
“We have the empires – Golden (Babylon), argent (Persia), bronze (Greece), iron (Rome). We have the chronology implied in the 490 years from the…”
0:09¶ 1
“Welcome to Halting Toward Zion, the podcast where we limp like Jacob to the Promised Land and talk about life, the universe, and everything…”
202and Aristotle Makes Three
12 Aug 2024
3:21¶ 11
“What’s happening in Israel right now? Israel is part of the Persian empire until Alexander comes along and makes it part of his empire.…”
3:40¶ 12
“We’ve passed the last of the Old Testament prophets. We’re past Nehemiah and Malachi. We’re in the so-called 400 silent years. Nothing really huge…”
1:59¶ 7
“This gives us not an exact timeframe, but at least it gives us some idea. Daniel is at the beginning of the Persian empire.…”
195From Marathon and On
3 Jun 2024
34:37¶ 107
“Greece appears in Daniel’s prophecies, but it does not appear in the Bible histories. With the Persian empire reaching its strongest phase, God closes…”
35:06¶ 108
“We speak of the 400 silent years. This is hardly the first time that God has gone silent. We tend to look at the…”
35:22¶ 110
“Yes. There were a lot of silent periods. This one was just a little longer than a lot of them. But the Bible is…”