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

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

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

Podcast 5.1: Studying the Historical Jesus – Sources and Problems, part 1

Podcast 4.6: Honouring the Emperors as Gods

Podcast 4.5: Justice from the Gods in Lydia

Podcast 4.4: Messages from the Gods – Apollo at Claros and Didyma

Podcast 4.3: Salvation from the Gods – Asklepios at Pergamum

Podcast 4.2: A City and Its Patron Deity – Artemis of Ephesos

Podcast 4.1: Introduction to Honouring the Gods

Podcast 3.16: The Gospel of Mary – Secret Knowledge from the Ultimate Disciple

Podcast 3.15: The Gospel of Philip, part 2 – Ritual Enactments of Salvation

Podcast 3.14: The Gospel of Philip, part 1 – Ideas of Salvation

Podcast 3.13: The Wisdom of Jesus Christ and Middle Platonism

Podcast 3.12: Secret Book of John, part 2 – Salvation from the Material Realm

Podcast 3.11: Secret Book of John, part 1 – The Spiritual Realm

Podcast 3.10 Introducing Gnostic Worldviews

Podcast 3.9: Marcionites and the Unknown God (Download)

Podcast 3.8: Jewish Followers of Jesus, part 2 – Pseudo-Clement

Podcast 3.7: Jewish Followers of Jesus, part 1 – Ebionites

Podcast 3.6: Sources for the Study of Diversity – Gnostic, Apocryphal, Patristic

Podcast 3.5: Diversity in Asia Minor – A Regional Case Study

Podcast 3.4: Docetic and Judaizing Opponents of Ignatius, part 2

Podcast 3.3: Docetic and Judaizing Opponents of Ignatius

Podcast 3.2: A Schism in John’s Community, part 2

Podcast 3.1: Introduction to Diversity – A Schism in John’s Community, part 1

Podcast 2.11: Hebrews’ Portrait of Jesus – Highpriest Melchizedek, part 2

Podcast 2.10: Hebrews’ Portrait of Jesus – Highpriest Melchizedek, part 1

Podcast 2.9: John’s Portrait of Jesus – Son and Word, part 2

Podcast 2.8: John’s Portrait of Jesus – Son and Word, part 1

Podcast 2.7: Luke’s Portrait of Jesus – Prophet Elijah, part 2 (Download)

Podcast 2.6: Luke’s Portrait of Jesus – Prophet Elijah, part 1

Podcast 2.5: Matthew’s portrait of Jesus – New Moses, part 2

Podcast 2.4: Matthew’s portrait of Jesus – New Moses, part 1

Podcast 2.3: Mark’s portrait of Jesus – Suffering Son, part 2

Podcast 2.2: Mark’s portrait of Jesus – Suffering Son, part 1

Podcast 2.1: Introduction to the Gospels as Portraits of Jesus

Podcast 1.12: Legacies of Paul – Women’s leadership, part 2 (Download)

Podcast 1.11: Legacies of Paul – Women’s leadership, part 1

Podcast 1.10: Paul’s response to the Romans

Podcast 1.9: Paul and the situation at Rome

Podcast 1.8: Paul’s response to the Galatians

Podcast 1.7: Paul and the situation in Galatia

Podcast 1.6: Paul and the followers of Jesus at Corinth, part 3

Podcast 1.5: Paul and the followers of Jesus at Corinth, part 2

Podcast 1.4: Paul and the followers of Jesus at Corinth, part 1

Podcast 1.3: Paul’s response to Jesus-followers at Thessalonica

Podcast 1.2: The Situation at Thessalonica

Podcast 1.1: Paul in his own words

Notes for Denison Goodspeed Lecture (April 16, 2018)

Oenomaus of Gadara on Detection of Deceivers and on Divination

Greco-Roman deities: Artemis of Ephesus 3

Greco-Roman deities: Artemis of Ephesus 2

Greco-Roman deities: Artemis of Ephesus 1

Pompeii 2: Rivalries among associations and a riot at Pompeii

Paintings of Pompeii 1: Villa of the Mysteries of Dionysos (Villa Item)

Beate Dignas, Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (2002)

Consulting the gods about your favourite blanket

Ballparking the historical Jesus – The importance of context

A second highly probable thing about the historical Jesus: Immersion by John the Baptizer

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

Did the peasant Jesus ignore Judean ritual laws? Crossan’s answer

On Sexual Indulgence: Paul and contemporaries like Musonius Rufus

Human sacrifice and cannibalism again — oh, and sexual perversion too

Thessalos’ travels and his “magical” cures

Sex and salvation in the Gospel of Philip

Marcion’s Stranger God (also “strange”)

The Jesus Ultimatum: Action and suspense in Mark’s gospel

The “savage” Marcion: Ethnographic stereotypes in attacking “heretics”

April D. DeConick’s The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says

Breaking news: Early Christians were impious atheists . . . (NT 3.2)

An early Christian schism over how to view Jesus’ flesh: Opponents of John the elder (Diversity 1.2)

Contexts of early Christianity (NT 3.1)

Viewing the diversity of early Christianity through opponents (Diversity 1.1)

What crime did Ignatius of Antioch commit and who laid the charges?

Immigrants adrift in the Greco-Roman world?

Post-apocalyptic films: From Escape from New York to Twelve Monkeys and beyond

Golden rule: Do unto others according to the “pagans”

“The beginning of another world”: Apocalyptic expectations of re-creation (End 1.9)

Spoofing the apocalypse, or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (End 1.8)

Saviours or destroyers in space: Modern incarnations of ancient apocalyptic worldviews (End 1.7)

Origins of an apocalyptic sect at Qumran: Teacher of Righteousness vs. Wicked Priest (End 1.6)

The times they are a changin’ endin’: Bob Dylan’s apocalypse (End 1.4)

Luke’s portrait of Jesus: Prophet Elijah and “Saviour” (NT 2.14)

Visions of the End: Where did they come from? (End 1.1)

Was Paul a man of his time?: Contemporaries on the treatment of slaves (NT 2.11)

Interpreting Judean scriptures in Paul’s time (NT 2.10)

“The head . . . proclaimed these verses”: Another (ancient) ghoulish story for halloween

Paul and the situation at Galatia — again (NT 2.9)

Paul and the Super-apostles at Corinth (NT 2.8)

It’s the end of the world as we know it: Paul’s apocalyptic worldview (NT 2.6)

The Gospel of Judas and ethnographic stereotypes: The priests “sacrifice their own children”

Let’s talk about sects: Diversity in Second-Temple Judaism (NT 2.3)

Breaking news: Early Christians had no New Testament (NT 2.1)

‘Come! Plunge the knife into the baby’: Tertullian’s not-so-subtle retort

For the gods of the homeland: Immigrants from Beirut on a Greek island

Associations of Immigrants: Thracians and the goddess Bendis near Athens

Judas Iscariot as the “good guy”?: The Gospel of Judas

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

Paul, the Galatians, and circumcision (NT 1.6)

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

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

A very Jewish Jesus: The Gospel of Matthew’s portrait (NT 1.4)

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

“Who is this guy?”: The Gospel of Mark on the identity of Jesus (NT 1.3)

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

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

Alexander the Great (d. 323 BCE) and Christian origins (NT 1.2)

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

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

Christian Origins (NT 1.1)

A History of Satan (Satan 1)

Regional rivalries and humour in the Greco-Roman world (Jokes 2)

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

Sophia’s repentance: The Apocryphon of John (NT Apocrypha 20)

The morphing Jesus: Christology in the Acts of John (NT Apocrypha 19)

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

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

A ghost story (from Phlegon): Bouplagos stood up from among the dead (Bou!)

The sacraments and divisions in the reformations (Reformations 9)

Thecla, Tertullian, and controversies over women’s leadership (NT Apocrypha 18)

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

Menocchio on judgement and hell (Reformations 7)

Peter vs. Simon Magus (alias Paul) in the Pseudo-Clementines (NT Apocrypha 17)

Sophia’s mistake: The Sophia of Jesus Christ and Eugnostos (NT Apocrypha 16)

“Gnosticism” as a scholarly category and the study of the diversity of Christianity (NT Apocrypha 15)

Menocchio on the Synoptic problem (Reformations 6)

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

The Fall of the temple of Artemis according to the Acts of John (NT Apocrypha 14)

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

The Coptic Gospel of Thomas and an interesting online debate (NT Apocrypha 13)

“Forgery” (deceit) or “pseudonymity” (admiration): Ehrman’s take (NT Apocrypha 12)

Jesus said: Let the children. . . get lost? (NT Apocrypha 11)

Bandits and their wild banquets: Lapiths and Centaurs

Reformations: Continuity or disjunction? (Reformations 2)

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

The brilliant student and the humiliated teacher again: Smart young Apollonius of Tyana (NT Apocrypha 8)

“Are we. . . to listen to her?”: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (NT Apocrypha 7)

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

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

Peter (in the Pseudo-Clementines) on “false” passages in scripture (NT Apocrypha 4)

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

The Little Drummer Boy and Protevangelium of James (NT Apocrypha 2)

The Cursing Infant Jesus: Ancient vs. modern sensibilities (NT Apocrypha 1)

“Marvels” yet again: Long-lost fountain of viagra

A Hellenistic Twilight Zone episode (and a Jewish parallel story)

Phlegon’s Believe It or Not: Man undergoes sex change only to reverse it

Those other (“pagan”) synagogues

Multiple memberships in the world of the early Christians

Aliens, Fallen Angels, and Heaven’s Gate

Banqueting under the protection of your gods

An invitation from the god Sarapis: Banqueting with the gods

Worshiping the Beast / Honouring the Emperor

“Going beyond all bounds to the realm of myth” in describing the “other”

Banquets of the anti-associations: “They sacrificed a human being and partook of the flesh”