Category Archives: History and the history of Christianity

“Me and the Devil Blues”: Robert Johnson and the crossroads (Satan 5)

A guided tour of the heavens: The Ascension of Isaiah (NT Apocrypha 21)

A History of Satan (Satan 1)

Acts of John: Be thou like the bed-bugs (NT Apocrypha 5)

Aliens, Fallen Angels, and Heaven’s Gate

Ballparking the historical Jesus – The importance of context

Demons and everyday life: Giving birth to monsters (Reformations 5)

Early Christian Apocrypha and the historiography of early Christianity (NT Apocrypha 6)

Enter the serpent: Adam, Eve, and the Devil (Satan 8)

Into the mystic: Meister Eckhart and medieval mysticism (Reformations 8)

Jesus’ descent into hell and Satan’s conversation with Hades (NT Apocrypha 3)

Menocchio on judgement and hell (Reformations 7)

Menocchio on the Synoptic problem (Reformations 6)

Menocchio, the peasant, on cheese and maggots (Reformations 4)

Mesopotamian gods, chaos-monsters, and the “combat myth” (Satan 2)

Non-Christian sources for the study of the historical Jesus: Josephus and Tacitus on the execution of Jesus

Notes for Denison Goodspeed Lecture (April 16, 2018)

Other predecessors of Satan in Israelite religion and the Hebrew Bible (Satan 3)

Rebellious, fallen angels and the flood: 1 Enoch (Satan 4)

Reformations and Late-Medieval Christianity (1300-1650) course (Reformations 1)

Reformations: Continuity or disjunction? (Reformations 2)

Rhetorical functions of Satan: From Babylon the whore to devilish super-apostles (Satan 7)

Salvation according to the “modern way” in the middle ages (Reformations 10)

Satanic conspiracies of the 1970s and 1980s (Satan 12)

The horrifying Nosferatu, personified plague and death (Satan 9)

The sacraments and divisions in the reformations (Reformations 9)

What’s so magisterial about it?: Magistrates and the Swiss and German reformations (Reformations 11)