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About this site

• Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean houses my podcast, websites, blog, and publications, providing an entryway into social and religious life among Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians, and others in the Roman empire.
  
  
Philip A. Harland
Associate Professor, York University, Toronto.

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My Podcast Links

• Archive.org collection (all audio files)
• Released episodes
• Podcast feed
• Specific series in the podcast:
  • 1. Paul and his communities
  • 2. Early Christian portraits of Jesus
  • 3. Diversity in Early Christianity
  • 4. Honouring the gods
  • 5. The Historical Jesus in context

Categories / topics

• Ancient Jokes and general humour (16)
• Apocalypticism (24)
  • Visions of the End course (11)
• Archeology and epigraphy (41)
  • Epigraphy series (16)
  • Megiddo Christian mosaics series (7)
  • Papyri (documents from Egypt) (3)
• Art and religion (3)
• Blogging (23)
• Christian origins and literature (179)
  • Acts (of Apostles) (9)
  • Biblical studies links and carnivals (33)
  • Christian Apocrypha and "Gnosticism" (52)
    • Gospel of Judas (5)
  • Diversity course (18)
  • Gospels (31)
  • Historical Jesus (31)
  • John's Apocalypse (Revelation) (1)
  • New Testament course series (21)
  • Opponents and 'heresies' (17)
  • Paul of Tarsus (29)
  • Pseudonymity, authority, and canon (4)
• Conferences (14)
• Early Judaism and the diaspora (32)
  • Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha (7)
  • Judaism in the homeland (8)
  • Synagogues (12)
• Film (7)
• Greco-Roman religions and culture (81)
  • Ancient philosophies (5)
  • Associations (36)
  • Emperor worship (6)
  • Gods and goddesses (4)
  • Identity in the world of the early Christians (14)
  • Magic (1)
  • Meals and banqueting (9)
  • Mysteries (7)
  • Pompeii (2)
• History and the history of Christianity (59)
  • Historiography and theory (5)
  • History links (26)
  • History of Satan (20)
  • Medieval Christianity and the Reformations series (13)
• Mesopotamian and Israelite religions (5)
• Music (8)
• News about podcast (15)
• Podcast (69)
• Religion and popular culture (25)
• Teaching the History of Religion (3)
• Translated inscriptions (4)
• Travel and Religion (35)
  • Ancient ethnography and paradoxography (19)
  • Immigrants (4)
• Uncategorized (1)
• Women and religion (7)

Bio / CV

Support

• Make Poverty History
• World Vision International
• Mennonite Central Committee

My Book Info/Reviews

Some blogs I browse

• Apocryphicity (Tony Burke)
• Archaeology of Iconoclasm (Troels Myrup Kristensen)
• Busy Body (Loren Rosson)
• CLEWS (Laura James)
• Cliopatria (at the History News Network)
• Current Epigraphy
• Earliest Christian History (James Crossley)
• Early Modern Notes (Sharon Howard)
• Exploring Our Matrix (James McGrath)
• Forbidden Gospels (April DeConick)
• Gypsy Scholar (Horace Jeffery Hodges)
• Hypotyposeis (Stephen Carlson)
• Mark Goodacre’s Blog
• Memorabilia Antonina (Tony Keen)
• Paleojudaica (Jim Davila)
• PhDiva (Dorothy King)
• Phil’s Vinyl Addiction
• Philo and the NT (Torrey Seland)
• Rhine River ( Nathanael D. Robinson)
• Rogue Classicism (David Meadows)
• Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology
• Stoa Consortium
• The Little Professor (Miriam Elizabeth Burstein)