The Winner’s Tale

25 episodes reading the New Testament as an 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. And a closing trilogy that runs the whole first century as one chain of cause and effect, from a quarrel about widows to the four gospels.