All Episodes

• S1 · E0 Christianity Unearthed A history of the Judeo-Christian world - the overture to the whole series. →
• S1 · E1 What the Floor Showed Me Aquileia, Nag Hammadi, Paul, and the first cracks in the official story. →
• S1 · E2 The World Before Christianity The Jewish, Roman, and Hellenistic pressures into which the Jesus movement emerged. →
• S1 · E3 Jerusalem: Roots, Rupture, and the First Struggles for Authority The earliest Jesus movement before Christianity became a separate religion. →
• S1 · E4 Antioch and Syria: The Crucible of Transition Jews and Gentiles, and the Syrian reshaping of Christian memory. →
• S1 · E5 Ephesus: The First Internal Crisis Christianity's first internal crisis: whether Christ had truly come in the flesh. →
• S1 · E6 Alexandria: Memory, Mystery, and the Engine of Doctrine Origen, Valentinus, allegory, and the first engine of Christian doctrine. →
• S1 · E7 Egypt: The Desert That Remembered Too Much The richest landscape of early Christian diversity, before control arrived. →
• S1 · E8 Egypt: When Memory Became Dangerous Pachomius, Athanasius, and the moment Christian diversity became unsafe to remember. →
• S1 · E9 Africa: Prophets, Martyrs, and the Legal Mind Tertullian, Cyprian, Perpetua: Christianity becomes public, disciplined, and forensic. →
• S1 · E10 Rome: Power and Persecution Administration before leadership: how Rome learned to manage memory. →
• S1 · E11 Filter and Fire: When Orthodoxy Becomes Law Persecution, canon, bishops, and empire: the narrowing of the field. →
• S1 · E12 The Arabian Echo: How Lost Christianities Survived at the Edge of Empire Beyond the Roman filter: the Christianities that shaped the world Islam entered. →
• S2 · E0 The Beginning: Before Christianity Became One Religion Before the filter of 313: competing memories, rival interpretations, fragile communities. →
• S2 · E1 Why the Early Christian Texts Do Not Agree, and Why That Matters The seams in the New Testament are not noise. They are the system. →
• S2 · E2 The Historical Jesus: Bedrock and Limits What can be known historically about Jesus before tradition thickens the picture. →
• S2 · E3 Memory and Myth How the resurrection claim reshapes memory, rereads scripture, and lets myth-making organize Jesus' identity. →
• S2 · E4 From Divergence to Definition: How Christianity Narrowed, 70 to 325 CE A map from the fall of the Temple to the Council of Nicaea. →
• S2 · E5 Mark: A Gospel Written Under Ruins The earliest surviving gospel, written close to catastrophe. →
• S2 · E6 Mark After Mark: Text Transmission and the Birth of Control When copying becomes interpretation, and preservation becomes management. →
• S2 · E7 After the Temple: Christianity Grew Out of Judaism The destruction of 70 CE and the slow split between two traditions. →
• S2 · E8 Matthew: How Scripture Was Used to Claim Jesus Matthew turns scripture into a fulfillment machine and claims Israel's story. →
• S2 · E9 Matthew: When Jewish Christianity Breaks from Judaism Matthew preserves the moment a Jewish Jesus movement begins to fracture. →
• S2 · E10 Luke: The Coherence Machine Luke and Acts: the first great coherence machine of early Christianity. →
• S2 · E11 The Bible Before the Bible: Languages, Translations, Edits How Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin shaped early Christianity. →
• S2 · E12 Paul: The Outsider Who Rebuilt Christianity Letters, conflict, and a radical vision of gentile inclusion without law. →
• S2 · E13 Paul's Letters: Christianity in Crisis Early Christianity in real-time conflict, and the letters that became doctrine. →
• S2 · E14 Acts: Luke's Second Volume and the Paul Problem Acts beside Paul's own letters. The portraits do not match. →
• S2 · E15 John: The Gospel That Redefined Jesus Read on its own, John is a different world. Jesus no longer announces the kingdom; he announces himself. →
• S2 · E16 John's World: Spirit, Truth, and Fracture A Greek city world of rival revelations, synagogue exclusion, and a fracture inside the Jesus movement itself. →
• S2 · E17 Lost Christianities: The Battle to Define the Faith Walk into Rome in 150 CE: multiple Christianities, each trying to become the Christianity. →
• S2 · E18 Before the Bible: The Christian Books That Disappeared A textual ocean wider than the canon's shores: gospels, acts, apocalypses, manuals, visions. →
• S2 · E19 Revelation: The Book That Almost Didn't Make It A Jewish prophet on a Greek island, Babylon as Rome, Nero as the Beast, and the converts of Paul as the enemy inside. →
• S2 · E20 Which Books Made It There was no Bible in 250 CE. There were Bibles. How some books won and others lost by the skin of their teeth. →
• S2 · E21 Which Books Did Not Make It Thomas, Mary, Peter, Judas, and the Jewish-Christian gospels: real holy books of real communities, and the five filters that excluded them. →
• S2 · E22 Before Nicaea: Coalition Takes Shape Proto-orthodoxy did not begin as a movement. It congealed under pressure, against opponents. →
• S2 · E23 Nicaea: Coalition Becomes a Church Nicaea did not create the church. It compressed a coalition that had already won most of its arguments. →
• S2 · E24 Bonus: What If Christianity? Seven pressure points where Christianity stood close to reconfiguration. A controlled exercise in contingency. →

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