The Winner’s Tale

25 episodes reading the New Testament as a historical record of the world that produced it - not a single finished book, but a library of arguments. Mark under the ruins of the Temple. Matthew defending a Jewish future. Luke and Acts smoothing conflict into continuity. Paul in real-time crisis. John redefining Jesus for a Greek city. A textual ocean of lost books, Revelation almost shut out, a proto-orthodox coalition forming under pressure, and a council forced to close the question.