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Why do depictions of Jesus always seem to portray him with long hair and a full beard? The reason stretches back to the earliest centuries of Christianity. The first images of Jesus actually depict him as beardless, but by the 4th century, bearded Christ was much more common.

Bibliography:
Thomas Mathews, "The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art," Princeton University Press, 1999.

Joan Taylor, "What Did Jesus Look Like?" Bloomsbury T and T Clark, 2018.
Joan Taylor, “What Did Jesus really look like?” https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35120965

Michael Peppard, "The World's Oldest Church," Yale University Press, 2016.

Mike Fillon, The Real Face of Jesus, Popular Mechanics, article: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a234/1282186/

Claudine Chavannes-Mazel, “Popular Belief and the Image of the Beardless Christ,”

John Dominic Crossan, “The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images,"



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Before Islam, Arabs worshipped many gods. Using newly deciphered ancient desert inscriptions, we explore the forgotten religious world of pre-Islamic Arabia: The goddess Allāt, sacrifice, pilgrimage, fate, magic, and the everyday prayers of ordinary people.

00:00 Intro to Safaitic Inscriptions
3:44 The Goddess Allat (also Rodaw and Dushara)
8:35 The Gods On Humanity's Side (Shams, Ba'al Samin, the Gadds)
15:07 Ritual Practice (prayer, pilgrimage, sacrifice, magic)
25:45 Fate



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Answering some of your questions from the comments! If you have any questions about religious studies feel free to comment or tweet at me @andrewmarkhenry!

Uploaded 20-09-16

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Uploaded 11-04-24

How would Jesus vote on political issues today? It's an impossible question to answer, but how you answer the question probably depends on your own political ideology.

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Uploaded 17-09-19

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building in Istanbul. Officially, at least according to the Turkish government, it is a museum. But it was originally built as a church and then was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. So what is it? Church, mosque, or museum?

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Sources:
Erdogan and converting back to mosque: https://www.apnews.com/9d7a4644abb04b9788c1ba37ec71c4ac ; https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-election-museum/turkeys-erdogan-says-he-plans-to-change-hagia-sophias-title-from-museum-to-mosque-idUSKCN1RA1ZB

Structural integrity of Hagia Sophia including Rob Ousterhout and Stephen Kelley quotes: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/a-monumental-struggle-to-preserve-hagia-sophia-92038218/

Bissera Pentcheva, Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017)

Eve Avdoulos, "Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia: Challenges of Managing Sacred Places"



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Uploaded 13-02-25

Why does Artemis of Ephesus look so different from the Greek huntress we know? Her statue’s unusual imagery has puzzled scholars for centuries. In this video, we explore the history, symbolism, and religious significance of Ephesian Artemis.

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00:00 Artemis the Huntress? Or the Ephesian?
1:43 Ephesus and the Artemision
9:53 The Story of Ephesian Artemis
11:18 Analysis of Her Imagery
17:15 Artemis in the New Testament
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Uploaded 14-12-23

It's often alleged that the Christmas tree originated from some sort of pagan practice. But the evidence points to a much later date during the Medieval period in Europe.

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Bibliography:
László Lukács, Geschichte und Verbreitung des Christbaumes in Europa (PhD dissertation)

László Lukács, “Christbaum der Irrungen,” Ungarn-Jahrbuch 32 (2014/2016)

László Lukács, “Der Christbaum in den oberrheinischen Städten des 16./17. Jahrhunderts,” Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 2/2014.

Timothy Larson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Christmas, (Oxford University Press, 2020),

David Bertaina, “Trees and Decorations,” in Joe Perry, Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History, (UNC CHapel Hill Press, 2010), 265 - 276.

Peter Gainsford, “Concerning Yule,” December 18, 2018, http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/12/concerning-yule.html

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Uploaded 30-01-20

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Any world religion textbook will include Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. But how many include indigenous religions? What even are indigenous religions and how do we study them?

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You probably have heard about the canonical Gospels in the New Testament. They introduce famous characters like the apostles Peter and John. But they also introduce not-so-famous characters that only show up for one chapter or less...guys like Nicodemus or Bartholomew. Despite the obscurity of these characters, early Christians in the 2nd century and onward wrote texts featuring these characters. I argue that this is a form of "fan fiction," and viewed through the lens of modern fandoms, we can see the motivation for why these Christians decided to write apocryphal literature.

Uploaded 22-08-18

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Bibliography:

Ika Willis: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/692/564

Acts of Paul and Thecla text: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/thecla.html

http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2006/09/fan_fiction_as_critical_commen.html

Photo attributions:

Paul and Thecla Ephesus fresco: http://rmadisonj.blogspot.com/2013/05/acts-of-paul-and-thecla-and-other-people.html

St. Thecla from Barcelona: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barcelona_Cathedral_Interior_-_St._Thecla_-_1486.jpg

Chapel of St. Thecla, Czech Republic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chapel_of_Saint_Thecla_2016_-_east_view.jpg

Roman Amphitheater: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merida_Roman_Amphitheatre_0594.jpg



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Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, celebrates love, spring, and the victory of good over evil. But its meaning is deeper than just throwing bright powders.

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