Welcome to another episode of the King's Way Podcast Book Club! If you haven't already read the book we're reviewing, don't worry–this could be the talk you need to get you interested in reading it. And if you have read it, welcome to the club!

In this episode, Trevor and Ryan discuss a good, thoughtful, and pretty boring book. From the famous stories of gods in the well-known Greek and later Roman pantheons of gods to the normal function of Roman mystery cults, bible scholar Nijay Gupta lays out the religious landscape that Christianity enters when it pops up on the scene. Trevor and Ryan's conversation covers the parts of Greco-Roman religion that they hadn't focused on before, like how geographic and heritage-based they were (not out to make converts), how transactional they are, and how countercultural Christianity seemed, even compared to Jewish religious practice. If you can stay awake through it and like New Testament background, it was worth the read!

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