---
title: "The Four Pillars — Discipleship"
description: "Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the third of BEMA’s four pillars, being challenged by the historical setting and practice of discipleship."
canonical: https://bema.jpamorgan.com/episodes/505
published: 2026-06-04
---

# The Four Pillars — Discipleship

Looking to Second Temple Judaism

- Published: 2026-06-04T08:00:00.000Z
- Episode slug: `505`
- Episode number: 505
- Session: 10
- People: Marty Solomon, Brent Billings

## Description

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the third of BEMA’s four pillars, being challenged by the historical setting and practice of discipleship.

## Show notes

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the third of BEMA’s four pillars, being challenged by the historical setting and practice of discipleship. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim Nahum M. Sarna — Wikipedia Shmuel Safrai — Wikipedia David Flusser — Wikipedia Quest for the Historical Jesus — Wikipedia Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia Rudolf Bultmann — Wikipedia Dead Sea Scrolls — Wikipedia N. T. Wright — Wikipedia E. P. Sanders — Wikipedia The Jesus Quest by Ben Witherington III Second Temple Judaism — Wikipedia Scholasticism — Wikipedia

## Sources and machine-readable records

- [BEMA Podcast Explorer episode page](https://bema.jpamorgan.com/episodes/505)
- [Official BEMA source page](https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/505)
- [Episode JSON](https://api.bema.jpamorgan.com/v1/episodes/505)
- [Audio](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/7d8cc2be-fe66-43fb-ada4-e62e2f8c00e7/c42bdcf2-a17b-46de-8f73-c04e8ab82430.mp3)