As I watched the entirety of the National Geographic video Jesus the Preacher with my historical Jesus class today, and listened as scholars addressed issues of population, acoustics and logistics that relate to addressing crowds near the sea of Galilee in antiquity, even mentioning at one point those on the fringe who might not be able to hear well, I kept expecting them to use this famous scene from Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
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