The Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean podcast explores social and religious life in the Greco-Roman world, especially early Christianity including the New Testament. Half-hour episodes are released bi-weekly from September to June (with a summer break in July and August). These episodes are not…
Podcast 8.24: Satanic Imagery And Conspiracies In Modern Culture (Download).
Podcast 8.22: Milton’s Traditional Satan in Paradise Lost (1600s) (Download).
Podcast 8.21: The Devil and Internal Struggles of the Reformation Period (1500s) (Download).
Podcast 8.20: Witchcraft Accusations and Pacts with the Devil (1400-1600) (Download).
Podcast 8.19: Satan and Demons in Everyday Life in the Middle Ages (Download).
Podcast 8.18: Satan’s Home, part 5 – Medieval Depictions and Dante’s Inferno (Download).
Podcast 8.17: Satan’s Home, part 4 – Tortures in Hell and Christ’s Descent (Download).
Podcast 8.16: Satan’s Home, part 3 – Developments among Early Jesus Followers (Download).
Podcast 8.15: Satan’s Home, part 2 – The Birth of Judean Hell in 1 Enoch (Download).
Podcast 8.14: Satan’s Home, part 1 – Cultural Origins Of Hell (Download).
Podcast 8.13: Satan as Father of Lies and Heresy in the Church Fathers (2nd-4th centuries CE) (Download).
Podcast 8.12: Satan’s Demons and the Greco-Roman Gods in the Church Fathers (2nd-3rd centuries CE) (Download).
Podcast 8.11: The Jealous Creator and the Serpent of Wisdom in Gnosticism (2nd century CE) (Download).
Podcast 8.10: Jealous Satan, the Image of God, and the Serpent in the Life of Adam and Eve (Download).
Podcast 8.9: A Satanic Empire in John’s Apocalypse (ca. 80-100 CE) (Download).
Podcast 8.8: Internal Functions of the Rhetoric of Satan in Paul and John (ca. 50-110 CE) (Download).
Podcast 8.7: The Devil and Beelzebub in Early Biographies of Jesus (70-100 CE) (Download).
Podcast 8.6: Mastema in Jubilees and Beliar in the Dead Sea Scrolls (ca. 100 BCE) (Download).
Podcast 8.5: Fallen Angels in 1 Enoch (ca. 225 BCE) (Download)..
Podcast 8.4: Other Predecessors of Satan from the Hebrew Bible (Download).
Podcast 8.3: Predecessors of Satan from Persia (Download).
Podcast 8.2: Predecessors of Satan from Canaan and Israel (Download).
Podcast 8.1: A Cultural History of Satan – Predecessors of Satan from Mesopotamia (Download).
Podcast 7.9: Daniel’s Visions as Veiled History (Download).
Podcast 7.8: Introduction to Daniel’s Historical Apocalypse (Download).
Podcast 7.7: 1 Enoch – Fallen Angels in Early Apocalypticism (Download).
Podcast 7.6: 1 Enoch – An Introduction to the Earliest Apocalypse (Download).
Podcast 7.5: Origins part 3b – Israelite Prophets 2 (Download).
Podcast 7.4: Origins part 3a – Israelite Prophets 1 (Download).
Podcast 7.3: Origins part 2 – Zoroastrian apocalypticism (Download).
Podcast 7.2: Origins part 1 – Ancient Near Eastern Combat Myths (Download).
Podcast 7.1: Visions of the End – What is Apocalypticism? (Download).
Podcast 6.14: Cultural Minority Associations and Ethnic Stereotypes, part 2 (Download).
Podcast 6.13: Cultural Minority Associations and Ethnic Stereotypes, part 1 (Download).
Podcast 6.12: Jesus Groups as Associations and Cultural Minorities, part 2 (Download).
Podcast 6.11 Jesus Groups as Associations and Cultural Minorities, part 1 (Download).
Podcast 6.10: Judean Immigrant Associations, part 2 (Download).
Podcast 6.9: Judean Immigrant Associations, part 1 (Download).
Podcast 6.8: Phoenician Immigrant Associations, part 2 (Download).
Podcast 6.7: Phoenician Immigrant Associations, part 1 (Download).
Podcast 6.6: Approaches to Studying Ethnic Associations and Identities (Download).
Podcast 6.5: Associations and the Roman Empire (Download).
Podcast 6.4: Associations and Greco-Roman Society (The City) (Download).
Podcast 6.3: Judean and Christian Groups as Associations (Download).
Podcast 6.2: Social, Religious, and Burial Activities of Associations (Download)
Podcast 6.1: Introduction to Associations in the Greco-Roman World (Download).
Podcast 5.15: Jesus as Messianic King? (Download)
Podcast 5.13: Jesus as Healer and Exorcist (Download)
Podcast 5.12: Jesus as Teacher, part 2 – Present or Future Kingdom? (Download).
Podcast 5.11: Jesus as Teacher, part 1 – Method and Content (Download)