Serapis, a Graeco-Egyptian god
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Crossan & Fuller – Lecture series on Israel and Rome
Week 01ISRAEL & ROME Livestream QnA: Tuesday, February 24th (10am PT / 1pm ET) How the Romanization of Israel resulted in both Violent Rebellion & Nonviolent Resistance Objective: Establish the political matrix of Jesus’ world through historical reconstruction. We will examine… Week 02BAPTISM & JORDAN Livestream QnA: Tuesday, March 3rd (10am PT / 1pm ET) […]
Continue ReadingChain of Political & Religious Events in Judea From Herod to 30 CE, Part 1***
Below is based on the book When Christians Were Jews by Paula Fredriksen, pp. 32–41. That portion of her book was copied & pasted from my Kindle version and uploaded to Claude.ai to prepare the outline/summary below. Overview This passage traces a connected chain of political and religious events in Judea from the death of […]
Continue ReadingThe Conversion of Constantine
This post contains a 1000-word summary by Claude.ai of a lecture and Q&A by Bart Ehrman at the BSA here. The lecture and Q&A was a little more than hour and is IMHO a very good overview of the events from Constantine’s origins to his death. The 9,000-word transcript is in his directory in Dropbox.
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