All Episodes

• S1E0Introduction to the SeriesAn introduction to the five Ages of the Judeo-Christian world.→
• S1E1What the Floor Showed MeThe real origins of Christianity.→
• S1E2The World Before ChristianityThe Jewish, Roman, and Hellenistic world Christianity was born into.→
• S1E3Jerusalem: Roots, Rupture, and the First Struggles for AuthorityThe earliest Jesus movement, still inside Judaism.→
• S1E4Antioch and Syria: The Crucible of TransitionWhere the movement confronted the Gentile question.→
• S1E5Ephesus: The First Internal CrisisChristianity’s first internal crisis.→
• S1E6Alexandria: Memory, Mystery, and the Engine of DoctrineHow Alexandria became an engine of doctrine.→
• S1E7Egypt: The Desert That Remembered Too MuchThe richest landscape of early Christian diversity.→
• S1E8Egypt: When Memory Became DangerousWhen memory became dangerous.→
• S1E9Africa: Prophets, Martyrs, and the Legal MindHow Roman Africa forged a disciplined church.→
• S1E10Rome: Power and PersecutionHousehold Christianity, burial, and persecution.→
• S1E11Filter and Fire: When Orthodoxy Becomes LawWhen orthodoxy becomes law.→
• S1E12The Arabian Echo: The Christianity Rome Never FilteredThe lost Jewish-Christian and Syriac Christianities.→
• S2E0The Beginning: Before Christianity Became One ReligionChristianity did not begin as one finished religion.→
• S2E1Why the Early Christian Texts Do Not AgreeThe gospels do not agree, and that is the evidence.→
• S2E2What We Can Actually Know About JesusWhat can we actually know about Jesus?→
• S2E3Memory and MythHow memory hardened into myth.→
• S2E4From Divergence to DefinitionFrom many portraits of Jesus toward one.→
• S2E5Mark: A Gospel Written Under RuinsA gospel written under ruins.→
• S2E6Mark After MarkHow Mark was copied, changed, and controlled.→
• S2E7After the Temple: Christianity Grew Out of JudaismChristianity grew out of a shattered Judaism.→
• S2E8Matthew: How Scripture Was Used to Claim JesusHow scripture was used to claim Jesus.→
• S2E9Matthew: When Jewish Christianity Breaks from JudaismWhen Jewish Christianity breaks from Judaism.→
• S2E10Luke: The Coherence MachineThere was never one story of Jesus.→
• S2E11Luke: The Gospel of ReversalLuke’s Jesus blesses the poor and curses the rich.→
• S2E12The Bible Before the BibleThere is no Christian Bible in the first century.→
• S2E13Paul: The Outsider Who Rebuilt ChristianityPaul never met Jesus.→
• S2E14Paul: The Cross and the Gentile NetworkPaul did not preach the kingdom of God.→
• S2E15Paul’s Letters: Christianity in CrisisEvery letter Paul wrote was an answer to an emergency.→
• S2E16Acts: Luke’s Second Volume and the Paul ProblemRead the Book of Acts.→
• S2E17Acts: How Luke Built the Founder MythThe Book of Acts ends with Paul in Rome, awaiting trial.→
• S2E18John: The Gospel That Redefined JesusThe Gospel of John does not begin with a birth.→
• S2E19John: Calendar, Table, and AuthorshipJohn and the other three gospels cannot both be telling the truth about the day Jesus died.→
• S2E20John’s World: The Logos and the Jewish RecenteringBefore the Gospel of John could call Jesus the Word, it had to find a vocabulary that did not yet exist in any single tradition.→
• S2E21John’s World: Spirit, Truth, and FractureJohn’s community got the Spirit.→
• S2E22The Persecution That Spared the ApostlesEvery believer was scattered.→
• S2E23The Centre and the CollapseA governor died in office.→
• S2E24What the Survivors BuiltWithin twenty-five years of the war, nobody who had known Jesus was left.Coming soon

Additional seasons and Ages are in production. Check Age II for the current focus.