Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the Devil Season 2, Epi 7: Leviathan’s Thighbone: Race and the Devil in Early Christianity
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, Imitations of Infinity.
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Sources:
Athanasius, Life of Antony
Todd Berzon, “Ethnicity and Early Christianity: New Approaches Religious Kinship and Community”
David Brakke, “Ethiopian Demons: Male Sexuality, the Black-Skinned Other, and the Monastic Self”
David Brakke, The Gnostics
Denise Kimber Buell’s Why This New Race? Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity.
Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism
Aaron P. Johnson, “The Blackness of Ethiopians: Classical Ethnography and Eusebius's Commentary on the Psalms”
Philip Mayerson, “Anti-Black sentiment in the Vitae Patrum”
Teresa Morgan, “Society, Identity, Ethnicity” in Ethnicity, Race, Religion, ed. Hockey & Horrell
Origen “On Prayer”