How Rome Seeded a Viral Global Religion - Dr. Robyn Walsh, DSPod #284

Dr. Robyn Faith Walsh is an Associate Professor of Religious
Studies at the University of Miami, who takes an unconventional
approach to studying the origin of Christianity. What if, she
asks, instead of using one dictionary for biblical texts, and a
different one for all other contemporaneous Greek literature, we
read the gospels as if they were the same as any other classical
text? It turns out that this small shift in semantic content
reveals a lot about the people who wrote the bible, the reasons
for Christianity’s massive rise to popularity, and the
entrenchment of the traditions that warped the weft of the
spiritual teachings originally contained within these ancient
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