Schisms: Religion Divided: Recent Episodes
Dustin Williams
A podcast looking in depth at the times throughout history when religions have divided. The first one we’ll be looking at is the Schism of 451 in which the two popes, the Bishops of Rome and Alexandria went their separate ways.
In this episode we talk about the early rise of Christianity in the time where it was still considered a Jewish Sect.
Sources The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World by Bart D. Ehrman My education
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This week we talk about Jewish history.
Sources * The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World by Bart D. Ehrman * Wikipedia - Jewish History
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This week we talk about ancient paganism.
Sources * The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World by Bart D. Ehrman * Wikipedia - Paganism * Wikipedia - Ancient Greek Religion * Wikipedia - Religion in Ancient Rome * Wikipedia - Imperial cult of Ancient Rome * Wikipedia - Hellenistic Religion * Wikipedia - Decline of Greco-Roman polytheism
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This week we talk about the Roman Republic, expansion, and Empire up to 275 CE.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Macedonian_War
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War
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We introduce the podcast and then explain why the Bishop of Alexandra, an Egyptian, would speak Greek. The required a brief overview of the Achaemenid, Macedonian, and Seleucid Empires, and the Ptolemaic Kingdom, as well as what Hellenism is and how the Hellenization process worked.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucid_Empire
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_Kingdom
Music from https://filmmusic.io "Tabuk" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)