Judeans: Agatharkides of Knidos on the Sabbath as cited by Josephos (second century BCE)

Judeans: Pseudo-Hekataios’ On Judeans as cited by Josephos (before first century CE)

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Judeans: Pseudo-Hekataios’ On Judeans as cited by Josephos (before first century CE)

Indian and Judean wisdom: Klearchos citing Aristotle (fourth century BCE)

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Indian and Judean wisdom: Klearchos citing Aristotle (fourth century BCE)

Judean perspectives: Josephos’ Against Apion in full (late first century CE)

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Judean perspectives: Josephos’ Against Apion in full (late first century CE)

Egyptian perspectives: Manetho (early third century BCE)

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Egyptian perspectives: Manetho (early third century BCE)

Libyan peoples: Hanno the Carthaginian (fourth century BCE or earlier)

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Libyan peoples: Hanno the Carthaginian (fourth century BCE or earlier)

Scythian and barbarian wisdom: Diogenes of Laertes (early third century CE)

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Scythian and barbarian wisdom: Diogenes of Laertes (early third century CE)

Chaldeans, Greeks, Egyptians, and Judeans: Aristides of Athens (second century CE)

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Chaldeans, Greeks, Egyptians, and Judeans: Aristides of Athens (second century CE)

Phoenicians: Herodotos (fifth century BCE)

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Phoenicians: Herodotos (fifth century BCE)

Physiognomy and ethnicity: Polemon as summarized by Adamantius (second / fifth centuries CE)

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Physiognomy and ethnicity: Polemon as summarized by Adamantius (second / fifth centuries CE)

Eastern and northern peoples: Bardaisan of Edessa and Philippos’ Book of the Laws of Countries (second-third centuries CE)

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Eastern and northern peoples: Bardaisan of Edessa and Philippos’ Book of the Laws of Countries (second-third centuries CE)

Physiognomy and ethnicity: Pseudo-Aristotle (third century BCE)

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Physiognomy and ethnicity: Pseudo-Aristotle (third century BCE)

Barbarian wisdom: Various authors and Clement of Alexandria (second century CE)

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Barbarian wisdom: Various authors and Clement of Alexandria (second century CE)

Judeans: Poseidonios (?) of Apameia and Strabo of Amaseia (first century CE)

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Judeans: Poseidonios (?) of Apameia and Strabo of Amaseia (first century CE)

Barbarian wisdom: Celsus and Origen of Alexandria (second-third centuries CE)

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Barbarian wisdom: Celsus and Origen of Alexandria (second-third centuries CE)

Germans: Philo of Alexandria (first century CE)

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Germans: Philo of Alexandria (first century CE)

Phoenician wisdom: Ampelius on Mochos of Sidon (early-third century CE)

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Phoenician wisdom: Ampelius on Mochos of Sidon (early-third century CE)

Phoenician wisdom: Strabo and Poseidonios on Mochos of Sidon (first century BCE)

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Phoenician wisdom: Strabo and Poseidonios on Mochos of Sidon (first century BCE)

Phoenician, Egyptian and Babylonian wisdom: Porphyry of Tyre on Pythagoras (third century CE)

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Phoenician, Egyptian and Babylonian wisdom: Porphyry of Tyre on Pythagoras (third century CE)

Phoenician, Egyptian and Persian wisdom: Iamblichos of Chalkis on Pythagoras (fourth century CE)

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Phoenician, Egyptian and Persian wisdom: Iamblichos of Chalkis on Pythagoras (fourth century CE)

Phoenician wisdom: Damascius on Eudemos of Rhodes and Mochos of Sidon (fourth century BCE)

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Phoenician wisdom: Damascius on Eudemos of Rhodes and Mochos of Sidon (fourth century BCE)

Phoenician perspectives: Philo of Byblos (early second century CE)

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Phoenician perspectives: Philo of Byblos (early second century CE)

Indians: Nearchos, Megasthenes, and Arrian (fourth century BCE-second century CE)

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Indians: Nearchos, Megasthenes, and Arrian (fourth century BCE-second century CE)

Persian wisdom: Eudemos of Rhodes on Magians (fourth century BCE)

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Persian wisdom: Eudemos of Rhodes on Magians (fourth century BCE)

Persian wisdom: Theopompos of Chios and Plutarch on Magians (fourth century BCE and later)

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Persian wisdom: Theopompos of Chios and Plutarch on Magians (fourth century BCE and later)

Persian wisdom: Aristoxenos of Tarentum on Pythagoras and Zoroaster (fourth century BCE)

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Persian wisdom: Aristoxenos of Tarentum on Pythagoras and Zoroaster (fourth century BCE)

Judean perspectives: Eupolemos (before the mid-first century BCE)

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Judean perspectives: Eupolemos (before the mid-first century BCE)

Judean perspectives: Anonymous (before the mid-first century BCE)

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Judean perspectives: Anonymous (before the mid-first century BCE)

Egyptian wisdom: Thessalos (first or second century CE)

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Egyptian wisdom: Thessalos (first or second century CE)

Celts / Gauls: Julius Caesar (mid-first century BCE)

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Celts / Gauls: Julius Caesar (mid-first century BCE)

Germans: Julius Caesar (mid-first century BCE)

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Germans: Julius Caesar (mid-first century BCE)

Judean perspectives: Artapanos (second century BCE)

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Judean perspectives: Artapanos (second century BCE)

Mediterranean peoples: Pseudo-Skylax (fourth century BCE)

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Mediterranean peoples: Pseudo-Skylax (fourth century BCE)

Judeans: Tacitus (second century CE)

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Judeans: Tacitus (second century CE)

Celts / Gauls: Timagenes of Alexandria (first century BCE)

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Celts / Gauls: Timagenes of Alexandria (first century BCE)

Diversity, part 2: Judean diversity fits with plurality of Jesus groups

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Diversity, part 2: Judean diversity fits with plurality of Jesus groups

Reflections from the Diversity of Early Christianity course, part 1: Invested sources

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Reflections from the Diversity of Early Christianity course, part 1: Invested sources

New research project on Ethnicity, Diaspora, and Ethnographic Culture in the Greco-Roman World

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New research project on Ethnicity, Diaspora, and Ethnographic Culture in the Greco-Roman World

Podcast 8.24: Satanic Imagery And Conspiracies In Modern Culture

Podcast 8.23: Goethe’s Ironic Mephistopheles (1700s-1800s)

Podcast 8.22: Milton’s Traditional Satan in Paradise Lost (1600s)

Podcast 8.21: The Devil and Internal Struggles of the Reformation Period (1500s)

Podcast 8.20: Witchcraft Accusations and Pacts with the Devil (1400-1600)

Podcast 8.19: Satan and Demons in Everyday Life in the Middle Ages

Podcast 8.18: Satan’s Home, part 5 – Medieval Depictions and Dante’s Inferno

Podcast 8.17: Satan’s Home, part 4 – Tortures in Hell and Christ’s Descent

Podcast 8.16: Satan’s Home, part 3 – Developments among Early Jesus Followers

Podcast 8.15: Satan’s Home, part 2 – The Birth of Judean Hell in 1 Enoch

Podcast 8.14: Satan’s Home, part 1 – Cultural Origins Of Hell

Podcast 8.13: Satan as Father of Lies and Heresy in the Church Fathers (2nd-4th centuries CE)

Podcast 8.12: Satan’s Demons and the Greco-Roman Gods in the Church Fathers (2nd-3rd centuries CE)

Podcast 8.11: The Jealous Creator and the Serpent of Wisdom in Gnosticism (2nd century CE)

Podcast 8.10: Jealous Satan, the Image of God, and the Serpent in the Life of Adam and Eve

Podcast 8.9: A Satanic Empire in John’s Apocalypse (ca. 80-100 CE)

Podcast 8.8: Internal Functions of the Rhetoric of Satan in Paul and John (ca. 50-110 CE)

Podcast 8.7: The Devil and Beelzebub in Early Biographies of Jesus (70-100 CE)

Podcast 8.6: Mastema in Jubilees and Beliar in the Dead Sea Scrolls (ca. 100 BCE)

Podcast 8.5: Fallen Angels in 1 Enoch (ca. 225 BCE)

Podcast 8.4: Other Predecessors of Satan from the Hebrew Bible

Podcast 8.3: Predecessors of Satan from Persia

Podcast 8.2: Predecessors of Satan from Canaan and Israel

Podcast 8.1: A Cultural History of Satan – Predecessors of Satan from Mesopotamia

Podcast 7.9: Daniel’s Visions as Veiled History

Podcast 7.8: Introduction to Daniel’s Historical Apocalypse

Podcast 7.7: 1 Enoch – Fallen Angels in Early Apocalypticism

Podcast 7.6: 1 Enoch – An Introduction to the Earliest Apocalypse

Podcast 7.5: Origins part 3b – Israelite Prophets 2

Podcast 7.4: Origins part 3a – Israelite Prophets 1

Podcast 7.3: Origins part 2 – Zoroastrian apocalypticism

Podcast 7.2: Origins part 1 – Ancient Near Eastern Combat Myths

Podcast 7.1: Visions of the End – What is Apocalypticism?

Podcast 6.14: Cultural Minority Associations and Ethnic Stereotypes, part 2

Podcast 6.13: Cultural Minority Associations and Ethnic Stereotypes, part 1

Podcast 6.12: Jesus Groups as Associations and Cultural Minorities, part 2

Podcast 6.11 Jesus Groups as Associations and Cultural Minorities, part 1

Podcast 6.10: Judean Immigrant Associations, part 2

Podcast 6.9: Judean Immigrant Associations, part 1

Podcast 6.8: Phoenician Immigrant Associations, part 2

Podcast 6.7: Phoenician Immigrant Associations, part 1

Podcast 6.6: Approaches to Studying Ethnic Associations and Identities

Podcast 6.5: Associations and the Roman Empire

Podcast 6.4: Associations and Greco-Roman Society (The City)

Podcast 6.3: Judean and Christian Groups as Associations

Podcast 6.2: Social, Religious, and Burial Activities of Associations

Podcast 6.1: Introduction to Associations in the Greco-Roman World

Podcast 5.15: Jesus as Messianic King?

Podcast 5.14: Jesus as Prophet

Podcast 5.13: Jesus as Healer and Exorcist

Podcast 5.12: Jesus as Teacher, part 2 – Present or Future Kingdom?

Podcast 5.11: Jesus as Teacher, part 1 – Method and Content

Podcast 5.10: Jesus and his Mentor, John the Baptizer

Podcast 5.9: Jesus in the Context of Educated Groups and Leaders

Podcast 5.8: Jesus, the Galilean and Judean

Podcast 5.7: Jesus, Galilee, and Israelite History, part 2 – To the Time of Jesus

Podcast 5.6: Jesus, Galilee, and Israelite History, part 1 – To the Second Temple

Podcast 5.5: Scholarly Portraits of the Historical Jesus, part 2 – Sanders

Podcast 5.4: Scholarly Portraits of the Historical Jesus, part 1 – Crossan

Podcast 5.3: Studying the Historical Jesus – Sources and Problems, part 3

Podcast 5.2: Studying the Historical Jesus – Sources and Problems, part 2