of his territory, the area of judea. there are several episodes recorded by josephus where eschatological prophets emerge, and pilate has no hesitation in eliminating them or in suppressing episodes of potential conflict or revolt within that territory. ( murmur of crowd ) >> people from all over the empire went to jerusalem on passover. it's one of the most populated times in the whole city. it's a madhouse. there are extra animals being brought up-- sheep-- because of the passover holiday. there are pilgrims coming in from everywhere. and jesus comes up to town, too. he could have stayed home and had passover in the galilee, but he didn't. he's up in jerusalem because this iimportant. pilate would get nervous when there were crowds of jews, and, of course, he was legally responsible to be up in jerusalem when it was the most crowded of all. he would leave this very nice, plush, seaside town in caesarea, which was, you know, a nice pagan city, plenty of pagan altars, all the stuff he wanted-- and have to go up to jerusa

nowhere more so than in the province of judea on the far edge of the mediterranean. capital, the holy city of jerusalem, is teaming with pilgrims for the springtime feast of passover. many of them looking for an earthly key, a messiah who will deliver them from the yoke of roman oppression. into this powder keg walks jesus of nazareth. his protests against the romans make him a popular hero. to some, he is the messiah. but to the romans, he's political trouble, so they crucify him. the followers of jesus believed that he has risen from the dead and will soon usher in the kingdom of heaven, but when and how will this new faith survive -- after jesus? today, more than 2 billion people call themselves christians, people who believe jesus rose from the dead. but perhaps it's a miracle that christianity did not disappear when the romans crucified jesus on a lonely hill outside jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. >> this region, jerusalem and judea, represented an important land bridge between syria and egypt. so throughout history, this has been a critical place. >> jerusal

on one side, mulnar noticed the astrological sign for aries, which stood for judea in ancient astrologyhe other side was the god jupiter. >> when i came across the coin that showed me that aries the ram was the sign of the jews, and i asked myself, well, what event would have happened in aries the ram? >> so, armed with a computer and charts of the ancient heavens, mulnar started plotting the course of jupiter in the constellation of aries around the time of jesus' birth. and he suddenly hit the mother of all celestial alignments. >> according to the beliefs of 2,000 years ago, if you have the sun, jupiter and moon, accompanied by saturn in the sign of aries the ram, this created the conditions for the birth of a divine and immortal person. >> if there was a star in the east, that would have been it. just when, exactly, did this star appear? mulnar did some more calculations. >> the computer came back with only one answer. it said it happened only once in aries the ram. that was april 17th, 6 b.c. >> christmas in april? jesus born six years before we thought? it's likely true, since kin

you must finish the conflict and their resolution will be a palestinian state in judea and somalia and jerusalem. president obama adopted this approach and is calling upon us, the israelis to be the palestinian state can go back to 1967 lines. in my book i referred to a new paradigm. enough of the two state solution. it doesn't work. we traded for the last 20 years. we signed the oslo accord and they haven't received any peace. we tried with different engagements from god for anything for the long one that should be a three state solution and not two state solution. when i speak about three state solution, i speak about jordan, egypt and israel. i do not believe this to be a palestinian state in the land of judea and somalia because what was happening today in gaza. the range of islamic radical forces. u.s. yourself, do we want to see the same happening in jerusalem? i do not. in my book i have a lot of criticism regarding the administration, but there is some good decisions to eliminate osama bin laden. i see with the leadership in action when president obama decided to kill osama bin

judea was part of jordan. i do not remember anyone who spoke during this time about an independent palestinian state. they had an opportunity to establish a real palestinian state. in our historical experience, we are ready to move forward, but again, the problem is they are not able to have elections within the palestinian authority. the tensions between the government, the palestinian authority and hamas. we do not know who has the real rights over the palestinian people. >> it has been a pleasure talking with you. i appreciate all of your thinking and your opinions. >> thank you, my pleasure. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> later tonight on c-span, we will also show you secretary of state hillary clinton's keynote address from the same event. >> so particularly, in light of today's announcement, let me reiterate that this administration, like previous administrations, has been very clear with israel, that these ac

jerusalem, or the fate of hundreds of thousands of israelis, who live in their biblical homeland of judea and somaria. chris mitchell, cbn news. >> george: and protests rocked egypt as morsi moved to expand his power. he issued a decree giving him control of all branches of government. >> wendy: and he backed the constitutional assembly two months early without the input of christians or other minorities. now some are calling morsi a new pharaoh. once again, highe here is chris mitchell. >> they want morsi either to step down or rescind his decrees. >> the position is obvious, there is no negotiation. and the political powers will not meet with president mohammed morsi until he has cancelled the constitution of declaration. >> reporter: morsi's decree stated no one can change or reverse any of his decisions. it puts him in charge of executive, legislative, and judicial. he claims it is only temporary, but many disagree, like mohammed al-baradi. >> we have a doubt. we thought we had moved from the pharaoh-type to the 21st century, and now we're back to having a new pharaoh. the country, in

galilee and about various basically wrecking the fishing industry with all of rome taking money out of judea and so john dominic first pointed us to me that did jesus go all the way to the galilee to recruit people to be disciples when he could have very well stated nazareth and he went to recruit people who would actually get it that the kingdom of caesar is not the kingdom of god and those out of work why are they all standing around on the shore mending their nets well they're out of work therefore and jesus recruits them in order to be disciples because there are people who will fundamentally understand see their kingdom. it's remarkable where. how should the bible be studied by modern christians who want a deeper understanding of. that i mean what you're describing is jesus as the original liberal. that world view. well you know i would recommend when i teach my theology classes i say theology begins with a pain and so in the bible studies that i'm writing for people to use occupy the bible and a lot of churches have signed up to use it for lent and bible study but i'm very happy about

ancient illiberal judea and then his chicken. and now to los angeles where authorities got more than they bargained for at a gun buyback the city offered grocery store gift cards in exchange for guns with no questions asked some of the weapons and in the exchange of work quite well a questionable in addition to the more run of the mill firearms the l.a.p.d. got to what military grade rocket launchers during the exchange the weapons are designed to launch grenades though no such grenades were turned in during the gun buyback it's unclear how someone ended up with these rocket launchers in the first place police believe that the weapon may be family heirlooms or collectibles based on their age but the gun buyback ultimately put two thousand and thirty seven firearms in the hands of authorities including seventy five assault weapons at times people waited in line for two hours to give back their guns the city even briefly ran out of gift cards well what will happen to the weapons collection all of them will be melted down including

from the old testament who at one point had tried to overthrow king david as the cane of israel or judea but he led a revolt to overthrow david and david had to put it down. but, he gave explicit instructions to not allow his son to be killed and word came back to him that they won the battle and they save the kingdom but solomon had died. he knelt down and cried out. i can't remember the exact quote it was something like oh lord, oh lord why have you taken up solomon my son? and john realized the entire bible, that was a passage that was the most that they could most empathize with and could understand. have him taken away and a new their son had done a horrible thing but he was still their son and they wished they could have their son back. yeah, and that is the kind of guy john is to understand people and have that compassion. to him, dylan was a mass murder and murderer and he had done a horrible thing but he was the pastor of the parents and he had to help them in the best way he could help them. it didn't matter, they were human beings and they needed help. >> host: dave cullen, ha

. >> narrator: apocalyptic expectations were fueling political turmoil throughout judea. jewish resistance to roman rule was growing daily. >> the situation in jerusalem was becoming increasingly tense through the mid-60s also. josephus tells us that there was growing tension over the last few governors of the countryside. he tells us that they were pretty abusive and... and corrupt administrators, robbing the people, as it were, for the... in order to line their own pockets. josephus also tells us that there's another source of growing tension in the country at this time, because there's an increasing number of bandit and rebel types coming out of the woodwork in the country. and so between growing banditry, the rise of the zealot movement, a... a politically active insurgency movement, and then the corruption of the administration, the situation in jerusalem is becoming very, very tense indeed. >> narrator: in the year 60 of the common era, after a decade building communities in the greek east, paul decided that his work there was done. >> ( dramatized ): now, with no f

is anti-democratic about islam in terms of political culture and needing more than christianity or judea'se so we agree on that point. second, and this is where we disagree. given the middle east which i think we are going to focus on today, the crushing social democratic economic political pressures in the societies are facing a change is coming and i've lived in this part of the world for five years back in 1990 and i go back regularly and support the notion as it is crafted in part because i think it is like debating how gravity. you see the early results in some, not most of all if you look at libya of the early elections. to me it seems like an unnecessary first stage of the debate which we are seeing unfolding in egypt and it is quite complicated and yes the political forces some of them but not all of them will try to set the table and try to limit the public debate and they will try to impose a model that closes off pluralism. i don't see this in egypt today as a realistic possibility as we see here today. this clash is spilling over into the streets but it's also largely been in p