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Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

A History of God

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09.06.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Reza Aslan is a religion scholar and a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside. His newest book is God: A Human History

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

A History of Violence and Religion

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09.05.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Karen Armstrong, a former Roman Catholic nun and British commentator and author known for her numerous books on comparative religion. Her latest is Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Judas Iscariot

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09.03.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Peter Stanford, a British writer, editor, journalist and presenter, known for his biographies and writings on religion and ethics. His most recent book is Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Origins of the Judeo Christian Religion

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09.02.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Philip Jenkins, author of Crucible of Faith: The Ancient Revolution That Made Our Modern Religious World.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

A History of Racist Ideas

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09.01.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Lucretius and On The Nature of Things

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08.31.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.  He is the author of many books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Birth of Christianity and the Destruction of the Classical World Part I

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08.30.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. She is the winner of a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Birth of Christianity and the Destruction of the Classical World Part II

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08.29.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the development of early Christianity.  He is the author of The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

How the Islamic Empires Saved the Classical World

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08.28.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Violet Moller is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history. She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

How Climate Change Brought Rome to Its Knees

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08.27.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Kyle Harper is a historian of the classical world and the Senior Vice President and Provost at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire.

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