Mar 19, 2024
Announcing the publication of the first volume in the History in the Bible Podcast Companion set of books, “Essential Resources”. You can get it from these Amazon marketplaces:
https://www.amazon.com/History-Bible-Podcast-Companion-Essential/dp/0645950726/
Jan 21, 2024
The last episode in the show. I give a big thank you to all my listeners, and a brief biographical sketch. Then I finish the series with three more speculations. First, what if Marcionism had become the orthodoxy of the imperial church incorporate? Second, could Manichaeism have swallowed up the church? And finally,...
Jan 14, 2024
Four more speculations.
I argue that an important element of Christianity’s success was
that it quickly transformed itself into what I call the imperial
church incorporate. Would Christianity have succeeded had it not
done so?
Second, could Mithraism have triumphed over the church?
Third, could the Gnostic variants...
Jan 7, 2024
More speculations and alternative histories! Our first diverges from our own timeline in about the year 35. What if Jesus had not been executed by the Romans, but had lived on to see the Great Judean Revolt of 66 CE. What would he have made of it? Second, let’s say that Jesus died when did, a generation before the...
Dec 18, 2023
This is the second episode in a series of speculations and alternate histories. This time: What if Christian missionaries had never preached to the pagans? Second, what may happened if Christian missionaries had ignored the Roman empire, and proselytised in Parthia, instead? Third, what would have become of...