A history podcast that explores the origins, development, and continuing influence of the Devil in Western cultures.

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To celebrate the witching season we devote our annual Halloween-horror-film episode to the 1970 folk horror classic, The Blood on Satan’s Claw, (dir. Piers Haggard).  Watch it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7YzrfxPjuY" rel="nofollow">here</a>, courtesy of New Castle After Dark, for free. Other things we mentioned: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJmrsRtCYxg" rel="nofollow">Penda’s Fen</a> (1974) (again, watch it for free.) A great podcast episode from <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/12-i-am-mud-and-flame/id1568956409?i=1000532786182" rel="nofollow">Live at the Death Factory</a> (second half) that covers Penda’ Fenn. Andrew Michael Hurley, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/28/devils-and-debauchery-why-we-love-to-be-scared-by-folk-horror" rel="nofollow">Devils and debauchery: why we love to be scared by folk horror</a>

S 2 Halloween Special: Devil’s Touch, Satan’s Skin

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This episode we unleash the takes upon some actually recent pop culture, viz. Netflix&#39;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UV8vmWXlY" rel="nofollow">Midnight Mass</a>, and discuss its strengths, weaknesses, and broader relevance for representing the aging, decrepit, and vampiric institutions that feed on our collective life force. Stuff mentioned in the episode: Noroi: The Curse (dir. Kōji Shiraish 2005) can be watched in its creepy entirety on YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIYE6EGt5Eo" rel="nofollow">here</a>.The short story about brain electricity at the moment of death is Tobias Wolf&#39;s, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/09/25/bullet-in-the-brain" rel="nofollow">“Bullet in the Brain”</a>

Season 2 bonus "CHURCH HANDSOME"

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Lightning strikes twice in one week. It&#39;s a short solo episode from Klaus about Athanasius of Alexandria, how the devil might live in the air, and how Christian theology conceptualizes both the human body of Jesus and the airy bodies of demons as instruments of the Lord. Sources:Athanasius, <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2802.htm" rel="nofollow">On the Incarnation of the Word</a>Athanasius, <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm" rel="nofollow">Life of Antony</a>Gay Byron, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Symbolic_Blackness_and_Ethnic_Difference/KaNkKmgUlA4C?bsq=Antony&gbpv=1&hl=en" rel="nofollow">Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature</a>Giorgio Agamben, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Opus_Dei/yVYTAAAAQBAJ?bsq=Poitier&gbpv=1&hl=en" rel="nofollow">Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty</a>

Season 2, Epi 10: Tool Time with Athanasius of Alexandria

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The episode that celebrates one year of 7H10H! Then we discusses how the Trinity happened, some influential theologians from Cappadocia, the devil as heretic, the devil as a man-eating Leviathan, Jesus as a fishhook, and God as the devil&#39;s therapist. Sources:Gregory of Nyssa’s Great Catechism: <a href="https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf205/npnf205.xi.ii.xxii.html" rel="nofollow">chapters XX-XXVI</a>Gregory of Nyssa, <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2915.htm" rel="nofollow">On the Soul and the Resurrection</a>Nicholas P. Costas <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/harvard-theological-review/article/abs/last-temptation-of-satan-divine-deception-in-greek-patristic-interpretations-of-the-passion-narrative/9DCB7EC80B5F8010B65F92A377166367" rel="nofollow">“The Last Temptation of Satan: Divine Deception in Greek Patristic Interpretations of the Passion Narrative”</a>Jeffrey Fischer &amp; Kyle Kirchhoff, <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/heyj.12252" rel="nofollow">“‘Even the Enemy himself would not dispute that the action was just’: Disguise and Self-Deception in Gregory of Nyssa”</a>Adam Kotsko, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Prince_of_This_World/yK_UDAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&hl=en" rel="nofollow">The Prince of this World</a>, Ch. 3Morenna Ludlow, <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/479207" rel="nofollow">“Demons, Evil, and Liminality in Cappadocian Theology”</a>

Season 2, Epi 9: A Hook Sticking Through the Devil's Cheek

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&#34;We are their bodies,&#34; one monk admitted. This week Klaus and Travis examine the practical knowledge the first generations of Christian monks developed for identifying and combatting their demons and the devil himself. Sources:<a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm" rel="nofollow">Life of Ant(h)ony by Athanasius</a><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018754" rel="nofollow">David Brakke, Demons and the Making of the Monk : Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity</a> (Also check ProQuest.)<a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/350710.htm" rel="nofollow">John Cassian, Institutes, Book X</a>Andrew Crisplin, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4125242" rel="nofollow">“The Sin of Sloth or the Illness of the Demons? The Demon of Acedia in Early Christian Monasticism</a>”Excerpts of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120428133436/http://www.ldysinger.com/Evagrius/01_Prak/00a_start.htm" rel="nofollow">Evagrius’ Praktikos</a><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/selected-discourses-of-shenoute-the-great/because-of-you-too-o-prince-of-evil/05A14E5E374A45B8DBCFD9B3CA291258" rel="nofollow">Shenoute the Great, “Because of You too, O Prince of Evil”</a>

Season 2, Epi 8: The Devil & The Desert Daddies

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Klaus and Travis think through the ways ancient understandings of race and ethnicity mattered for group formation in early Christianity. They also see how anti-Blackness and anti-Judaism bring this all back to the Devil. Special thanks to Michael Motia for his input on this episode! Check out his new book on Gregory of Nyssa, <a href="https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16275.html" rel="nofollow">Imitations of Infinity.</a>Follow us @7heads10hornspod on Insta, @heads_ten on Twitter,  Email us at 7h10hpod@gmail.com and thanks for all the likes, reviews, subscriptions, recommendations, and ritual sacrifices. Sources: Athanasius, <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm" rel="nofollow">Life of Antony</a> Todd Berzon, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1476993X17743454" rel="nofollow">“Ethnicity and Early Christianity: New Approaches Religious Kinship and Community”</a>  David Brakke, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704758" rel="nofollow">“Ethiopian Demons: Male Sexuality, the Black-Skinned Other, and the Monastic Self”</a> David Brakke, <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674066038" rel="nofollow">The Gnostics</a> Denise Kimber Buell’s <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/buel13334" rel="nofollow">Why This New Race? Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity.</a>  Anthea Butler, <a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661179/white-evangelical-racism/" rel="nofollow">White Evangelical Racism</a> Aaron P. Johnson, “<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4125292" rel="nofollow">The Blackness of Ethiopians: Classical Ethnography and Eusebius&#39;s Commentary on the Psalms</a>”  Philip Mayerson, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1509622" rel="nofollow">“Anti-Black sentiment in the Vitae Patrum” </a> Teresa Morgan, “Society, Identity, Ethnicity” in <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ethnicity-race-religion-9780567677303" rel="nofollow">Ethnicity, Race, Religion, ed. Hockey &amp; Horrell</a> Origen <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/origen_on_prayer_02_text.htm" rel="nofollow">“On Prayer”</a> <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Desert_Fathers/UkbZy7-SqjkC?gbpv=1&hl=en&printsec=frontcover" rel="nofollow">Sayings of the Desert Fathers</a>

Season 2, Epi 7: Leviathan’s Thighbone: Race and the Devil in Early Christianity

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Epi 6 focuses on one of the most brilliant, misunderstood, and maligned theologians of Church history, Origen of Alexandria, and his provocative ideas about the origin (so many bad puns coming) of the devil and the possibility that everyone, including said devil, will be saved at the end of time. Follow us on Twitter @heads_tenEmail: 7h10hpod@gmail.com Sources for this week;Origen online: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/John Behr, “Introduction,” <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/origen-9780198845317?cc=us&lang=en" rel="nofollow">On First Principles: A Reader’s Edition.</a>Mark J. Edwards, “<a href="https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/secure/POJ/downloadpdf.php?ticket_id=604f668cac3d7" rel="nofollow">The Fate of the Devil in Origen</a>” Mark J. Edwards, “<a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/origen/#CreOrd" rel="nofollow">Origen</a>,” Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyNeil Forsyth, <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691014746/the-old-enemy" rel="nofollow">The Old Enemy</a>Lisa R. Holliday “<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20474897" rel="nofollow">Will Satan Be Saved? Reconsidering Origen&#39;s Theory of Volition in &#34;Peri Archon&#34;</a>”(pp. 1-23)Jeffery Burton Russel, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Satan/gxwR74_cpx4C?gbpv=1&hl=en&printsec=frontcover" rel="nofollow">Satan: The Early Christian Tradition</a>, Ch. 5Charles M. Stang, <a href="https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2019/03/19/flesh-and-fire-reincarnation-and-universal-salvation-early-church" rel="nofollow">“The Flesh and the Fire” Reincarnation and Universal Salvation in the Early Church</a>

Season 2, Episode 6: Origen (sic) of Diabology

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This episode Travis and Klaus discuss the new book by Catherine Keller, Facing Apocalypse, and talk through the way this contemporary theologian interprets the book of Revelation in the midst of Covid 19, climate change, capitalism, and other catastrophes, while resisting the kind of interpretation (&#34;Y2K was foreseen in the Bible!&#34;) that conservatives keep using Revelation for. Keller argues that Revelation does not mean The End but instead points to different possible endings of human exploitation of the earth that in turn may give rise to more humane and holier modes of dwelling. Catherine Keller, <a href="https://www.orbisbooks.com/facing-apocalypse.html" rel="nofollow">Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances</a> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1&version=NRSV" rel="nofollow">Book of Revelation (NRSV)</a>

Season 2 Bonus: Catherine Keller's Facing Apocalypse

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This episode represents our first guest contribution to the pod. Stefano walks us through the use of the devil&#39;s interval in Baroque classical music and from there ventures into diabolic form and content in blues, jazz, Satanist-adjacent classic rock, not to mention Snoop Dogg. Connect with Stefano on Instagram @stefrozental10 and the pod itself @heads_ten on Twitter. Email us at 7h10hpod@gmail.com and thanks for all the likes, reviews, subscriptions, recommendations, and ritual sacrifices.

Season 2 Bonus: The Devil's Trill with Stefano

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This week K&amp;T discuss that 2nd-3rd-century church father who never made it as a saint, Tertullian, and his extremely paranoid diabology. ﻿**Warning,** extreme Northeastern USA / SE. Pennsylvanian pronunciation of the word “water” (=wodr) when Klaus starts talking about baptism. Sensitive listeners should be advised.   Follow us, @heads_ten, on <a href="https://twitter.com/heads_ten?lang=en" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>  Write us: 7h10hpod@gmail.com Sources for this week: <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/" rel="nofollow">Tertullian’s works</a> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt284v2g.4" rel="nofollow">Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire (Selections from the Fathers of the Church, Volume 2) Book Editor(s): Robert D. Sider</a> Christine Trevett, Montanism: Gender, Authority,, and the New Prophecy: <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/religion/church-history/montanism-gender-authority-and-new-prophecy?format=PB&isbn=9780521528702" rel="nofollow">https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/religion/church-history/montanism-gender-authority-and-new-prophecy?format=PB&amp;isbn=9780521528702</a> “The Montanists” <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/montanism.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.tertullian.org/montanism.htm</a> Dale Tuggy, “History of Trinitarian Doctrines” <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/trinity/trinity-history.html#Tertul" rel="nofollow">https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/trinity/trinity-history.html#Tertul</a> Daniel H. Weiss <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/harvard-theological-review/article/abs/christians-as-levites-rethinking-early-christian-attitudes-toward-war-and-bloodshed-via-origen-tertullian-and-augustine/74ECFBA8FA36E652B65F4F5277598D79" rel="nofollow">“Christians as Levites: Rethinking Early Christian Attitudes toward War and Bloodshed via Origen, Tertullian, and Augustine”</a> Peter Harrison, <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/abs/i-believe-because-it-is-absurd-the-enlightenment-invention-of-tertullians-credo/69340C3AF8366E79BCF3BDD804DED82E" rel="nofollow">“I Believe Because it is Absurd”: The Enlightenment Invention of Tertullian&#39;s Credo</a> Sophie Rabau,<a href="https://books.openedition.org/pulm/333?lang=en" rel="nofollow">” Cecco interpolator ? ou du Diable au Démiurge. Autorité et réécriture chez Marcel Schwob”</a> Duncan Heaster, <a href="http://www.realdevil.info/1-2-2.htm" rel="nofollow">“Satan In The Thought Of Irenaeus And Tertullian”</a> Jeffrey Burton Russel, <a href="https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801412677/satan/#bookTabs=1" rel="nofollow">Satan: The Early Christian Tradition</a>

Season 2, Epi 5: Tertotally!

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Klaus and Travis discuss the role of the devil in the early 3rd-century martyrdom/passion narrative of Perpetua and Felicity. Sources: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, trans/ed. Thomas J. Heffernan, Oxford University Press Online version: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/perpetua.asp L. Stephanie Cobb, &#34;Suicide by Gladiator? The Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas in its North African Context&#34; Church History&#39; 88:3 (September 2019), 597-628.  Katherine E. Milco,“Mulieres viriliter vincentes: Masculine and Feminine Imagery in Augustine’s Sermons on Sts. Perpetua and Felicity ,” VIGILIAE CHRISTIANAE 69 (2015) 276-295  DAVID E. WILHITE “Perpetua of History in Recent Questions” Journal of Early Christian Studies 25:2, 307–319

Season 2, Episode 4: Perpetua & Felicity vs. The Devil

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&#34;I saw Lil Nas X&#39;s Air Max 97s dropping like lightning.&#34; Clearly we had no choice on this Devil podcast but to put out our thoughts and feelings about the recent Lil Nas X scandal/marketing extravaganza/moral panic. Sources: Lil Nas X,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIlz3g3DgCU" rel="nofollow"> &#34;Montero&#34; video</a> Heather White, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/lil-nas-x-s-satan-shoes-trolled-some-christians-montero-ncna1262495?fbclid=IwAR3csHUvnTY64zVBfWrqBKU5GASuV0Su2QP3I8z_EUifHfOtb2Bttha2I8o" rel="nofollow">&#34;Lil Nas X&#39;s &#39;Satan Shoes&#39; trolled some Christians. But &#39;Montero&#39; is about more than that.&#34;</a> Andrew R. Chow, <a href="https://time.com/5951024/lil-nas-x-montero-video-symbolism-explained/" rel="nofollow">&#34;Historians Decode the Religious Symbolism and Queer Iconography of Lil Nas X&#39;s &#39;Montero&#39; Video&#34;</a> Bryan Pietsch, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/style/nike-satan-shoes-lil-Nas-x.html?smid=em-share" rel="nofollow">&#34;These Shoes Contain a Drop of Human Blood. Nike Does Not Approve.&#34;</a>

Season 2 Bonus: Lil Nas X, Satan Shoes, and Montero

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This week Travis and Klaus discuss Gnosticism and try to make sense of the confusing religious landscape of the 2nd century CE. In the course of their conversation, they explore yet another re-imagining of the book of Genesis, the role of demons in the creation of the world &amp; humanity, and consider how Gnostic demonology helps us think about the problem of evil in Christianity. Sources: The Gnostic Bible (ed. Barnstone &amp; Meyer)-The Secret Book of John-The Reality of the Rulers David Brakke, The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Christianities Karen King, What is Gnosticism? Adam Kotsko, The Prince of this World

Season 2, Episode 3: The Secret Pod of Yaldabaoth

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This week we return to the scene of the crime from our first episode—the Garden of Eden—to make sense of why Christian theologians got so obsessed with Adam and Eve and why this matters for understanding the Devil. Our main source is Irenaeus, a 2nd century theologian who wrote a very long book about why everyone else was wrong, Against Heresies.  Our intro music is by Yung KooladeOur transition music is &#34;Vater Lee&#34; by Black Ant from here: <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Black_Ant/Free_Beats_Sel_3/Fater_Lee" rel="nofollow">https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Black_Ant/Free_Beats_Sel_3/Fater_Lee</a> license link: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode" rel="nofollow">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode</a> A translation of Against Heresies: <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm</a> Other things we read: Gustaf Aulèn, Christus Victor Gerald Hiestand, The Bishop, Beelzebub, and the Blessings of Materiality: How Irenaeus’ Account of the Devil Reshapes the Christian Narrative in a Pro-Terrestrial Direction Denis Minns, OP, Irenaeus: An Introduction Neil Forsyth, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth J.B. Russell, Satan: The Early Christian Tradition

Season 2, Episode 2: Irenaeus

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Back in action with Season 2, Klaus and Travis discuss the mysterious and often acerbic Justin Martyr, the 2nd century philosopher and Christian apologist, whose understanding of devils and demons fits in with a larger project of differentiating Christians from Romans and Jews. What could go wrong? Sources discussed: Justin Martyr&#39;s writings: https://archive.org/details/writingsofjustin00justuoft Annette Yoshiko Reed, &#34;The Trickery of Fallen Angels and the Demonic Mimesis of the Divine&#34; https://muse.jhu.edu/article/169408/summary Jennifer Knust, &#34;Enslaved to Demons: Sex, Violence, and the Apologies of Justin Martyr&#34;: https://brill.com/view/book/9789047411260/Bej.9789004154476.i-582_015.xml

Season 2, Episode 1: Justin Martyr

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Travis takes us to Hell for the first time since we discussed Milton&#39;s Paradise Lost in episode 5. He discusses the Gospel of Nicodemus B, another apocryphal gospel, in which Jesus leads a prison break out of Hell and we get a bizarre dialogue between Satan and Hades, the personification of Hell. Remember to rate, review, &amp; subscribe and we&#39;ll be back before too long to begin our second season.

Episode 16: Jesus Goes to Hell

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Statues gone wild! Sinister, nameless old men! The Devil&#39;s favor shown toward a city of cannibals! This episode focuses an example of New Testament apocrypha, AKA, scripture that didn&#39;t make the final draft of the Bible, called The Acts of Andrew and Matthias in the City of the Cannibals. You can read a translation of that text here: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0820.htm

Chapter 15: Cannibal City

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This week Klaus and Travis discuss the experience of trying to make sense of the Book of Revelation over the past 2 episodes, its links to modern apocalyptic Christian Fundamentalism, and Revelation- reverberations in the January 6 MAGA coup.

Episode 14: Revelation Recap--The Millennium, as told by the Millennials

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This week Travis guides us to safety through the second half of the Book of Revelation. We meet various monsters and learn the diabolical secret of the &#34;mark of the Beast.&#34; Travis delves into the misogynistic language of sexual impurity that appears throughout Revelation and determines its biblical sources and rhetorical purposes. Finally, he poses the important question of why things are so boring at the end when the monsters exit the stage. Email us at 7h10hpod@gmail.com and follow us on social media @heads_ten [Twitter] and @7heads10hornspod [Instagram.] For works cited, check out: https://7h10hpod.blogspot.com/2020/11/works-consulted.html

Episode 13: Revelation Pt. 2

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This is part 1 of 3 projected episodes on the Book of Revelation. This week we skip to the end of the New Testament to see what the end of the world is like and the role the Devil plays in it. We meet the prophet/seer John and hear about his very strange trip to the heavenly throne room. Along the way we encounter all kinds of monsters including a monstrous lamb, scorpion-tailed locusts, and a certain pale rider. New Twitter handle: @heads_tenInstragram: @7heads10hornspodEmail: 7h10hpod@gmail.comCitations: https://7h10hpod.blogspot.com/2020/11/works-consulted.html

Episode 12: The Seven-Eyed Lamb (Revelation pt. 1)

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This week we look at the gospel that is different from all the rest, especially when it comes to the Devil: The Gospel of John. We discuss the way the Devil appears in this text, its demonization of Jews or &#34;Judaeans,&#34; whether or not John was part of a sectarian community, the possible influence of the Dead Sea Scrolls on John, and Pontius Pilate as the personification of Christian ambivalence about political power. And how he might be infested with demons. Email us with comments and controversies at 7h10hpod@gmail.com Check out our bibliography: https://7h10hpod.blogspot.com/2020/11/works-consulted.html Find us on social: @7heads10hornspod on Instagramand: @klaus_yoder on Twitter

Episode 11: The Prince of this World vs. The King of the Jews

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This week we slide head-first into the New Testament (AKA &#34;the Christian Bible&#34;) and puzzle over its oldest sources, the letters of St. Paul. Travis and Klaus discuss the myriad ways Paul thinks about evil: powers &amp; principalities, sin, death, fallen angels, and Satan himself. Find us on Twitter: @klaus_yoder &amp; @realtravis_tea And <a href="https://www.instagram.com/7heads10hornspod/" rel="nofollow">Instagram</a>! Check out the sources we use to make the pod: https://7h10hpod.blogspot.com/2020/11/works-consulted.html Email us feedback at 7h10hpod@gmail.com

Episode 10: Saint Paul's Demons

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This week 7H10H addresses the big question on everyone&#39;s mind: did Jewish and Christian apocalyptic theologians get their best ideas from ancient Iran when it comes to the Devil and cosmic war? Shout out and thanks to Ernest J. Mitchell and Prods Oktor Skjaervø for help with sources this week. Talk to us: 7h10hpod@gmail.com Check out our sources: https://7h10hpod.blogspot.com/2020/11/works-consulted.html

Episode 9: Ancient Iran and the Devil

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On offer this week: a short overview of the demonology of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This week Klaus gets into the history of the community that produced the Dead Sea Scrolls and introduces some of the malevolent entities that dwell in those ancient documents. Email the pod with questions and comments at 7h10hpod@gmail.com We&#39;re gradually posting the books and articles we use to make the pod. Check out the bibliography here: https://7h10hpod.blogspot.com/2020/11/works-consulted.html

Episode 8: Children of Light and Darkness

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What happens when angels patrolling the newly-created world get a little too randy and start behaving recklessly? This episode marks our transition to a more chronological attempt at narrating the history of the Devil. We start with an important set of stories about the origins of demons that takes root around the interpretation and retelling of a rather cryptic moment in the book of Genesis, chapter 6. Taking the Genesis version as our starting point, we move on to discuss Second Temple era pseudepigrapha (= non-canonical works that present themselves as having been recorded by major characters from the Hebrew Bible.) We pay special attention to the books of Enoch &amp; Jubilees and the demonologies that result from these dramatic new renditions of the Watchers Story. Email us with questions and comments at 7h10hpod@gmail.com

Episode 7: Watch out for the Watchers

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This week&#39;s episode centers on the demonic as a conceptual and cultural tool for imposing or resisting power structures. Demonization has a complicated history in Christianity: it justifies the suppression of many aspects of pre-Christian Roman civilization, provides a key rationale for early-modern European colonization, but also enables a contemporary Womanist critique of white supremacy. Just in time for the US&#39;s electoral rituals of inclusion and exclusion from the national community, we delve into the politics of demonization. Many thanks to Ernest J. Mitchell for the library-access-assist with Delores S. Williams&#39; article &#34;The Color of Feminism: Or, Speaking the Black Woman&#39;s Tongue.&#34; Email us with questions and comments at 7h10hpod@gmail.com

Episode 6: Histories of Demonization

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This week on the pod we cover the history of Halloween as it is practiced in the USA and intersects with the history of the Devil. A really useful source for this week&#39;s material is Nicholas Rogers&#39; Halloween : From Pagan Ritual to Party Night. ﻿Email us with questions and comments at 7h10hpod@gmail.com

The History of Halloween & the Devil

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This week we take a break from excavating ancient accounts of the Devil from the dustbin / slaughter bench of history to talk about some horror movie classics just in time for Halloween season. The films we discuss are Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) &amp; Hereditary (2018). We spoil the hell out of these movies but it&#39;s totally worth it for the trick-or-pod thrill! Email us with questions and comments at 7h10hpod@gmail.com

HALLOWEEN MOVIE SPECIAL

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How did the Devil become a snake? In this episode we find out about an odd fashion choice with enormous consequences. Full disclosure: this is the first thing we ever recorded when we were figuring out what this pod was going to be about back in May 2020. The mics in our conversation aren&#39;t great. Unlike the other episodes we&#39;ve done so far, this is focused on one text, John Milton&#39;s Paradise Lost, a 17th century epic poem about the creation of the world and humanity&#39;s fall into sin. The reason we focused on this text was largely out of happenstance but we thought it was worth saving because Milton&#39;s version of Satan is so influential for modern understandings of Satan as a rebellious anti-hero and because we had fun! If you want to follow along with a great online version of the text, look here: <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/text.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/text.shtml</a> Email us with questions and comments at 7h10hpod@gmail.com

Episode 5: Milton's Satan, or, How the Devil became a Snake

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This week: how should we think about the Devil if the universe is divided between good &amp; evil, light &amp; darkness, truth &amp; falsehood? Is the Devil God&#39;s equal in these scenarios? And how does dualism live on in Christian thought? We examine 3 examples of traditions frequently labeled as dualistic: the late-antique Essene community at Qumran in the West Bank as represented in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Manichaean religion of Persia and Babylon from around the same period, and the Cathar heresy of medieval Europe. Email us with questions and comments at 7h10hpod@gmail.com

Episode 4: Dualism and the Devil

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What happens when demons or the Devil invade a human body? And how can they be driven out? This week: a look at possession and exorcism in early Christianity, medieval / early-modern Europe, and, of course, the classic 1973 film, The Exorcist. Email us with questions and comments at 7h10hpod@gmail.com

Episode 3: Possession & Exorcism

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This week we take a look at some gruesome characters from the Hebrew Bible who influenced later ideas about the Devil. Email us with questions and comments at 7h10hpod@gmail.com

Episode 2: Satans, Dragons, and Tyrants

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In the first episode, Klaus and Travis introduce themselves and the pod and begin to explore the history of the Devil by discussing the theme of temptation in the Garden of Eden and beyond. Other texts discussed include the Gospels of Mark and Matthew (NRSV translation) plus the Life of Adam and Eve (Greek and Latin versions in English translation, available here: <a href="http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/anderson/vita/english/vita.lat.html" rel="nofollow">http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/anderson/vita/english/vita.lat.html</a>and: <a href="http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/lifeadameve.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/lifeadameve.html</a> Podcast art: made available through the Cornell University - PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography. Music by Yung Koolade Email us at 7h10hpod@gmail.com

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The History of the Devil

Concepts and legends about the Devil and other personifications of evil in religion, literature, and pop culture.

Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the Devil

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