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This first lecture establishes the broad lines of ancient Mediterranean constructions of God, humanity, and the universe, which will set the framework for our exploration of the birth and evolution of the very various forms of ancient Christianity.

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This second lecture establishes the social, thus religious context for the development of early Christianity, namely, Graeco-Roman Judaism. How did Jews fit themselves into the world after Alexander?

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This lecture seeks to fill in the gap between Jesus’s mission and that of Paul by situating Paul’s letters and the material available in the gospels within the traditions of late Second Temple apocalyptic expectation. 

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We are back in the Greek-speaking Jewish diaspora, with the apostle Paul. And we are back in the world of Jewish apocalyptic traditions, which problematized the normal paganism of Gentiles. What place for non-Jews in God’s kingdom did such traditions hold?

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In its earliest phases, the gospel’s message of impending redemption had been a species of late Second Temple Judaism. At what point do developing traditions about Christ emerge into new, separate movements.

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This lecture briefly sums up the main themes of the previous ones, while laying out the ways that the fourth century’s progressive Christianization of government and the institutionalization of the church affected the concepts of God, “man,” and the universe.