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

<p><span>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. </span></p><p><span>Special thanks to Michael Motia for his input on this episode! Check out his new book on Gregory of Nyssa, </span><a href="upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16275.html"; rel="nofollow"><em>Imitations of Infinity</em>.</a></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p><u>Sources:</u></p><p><br></p><p><span>Athanasius, </span><a href="newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm"; rel="nofollow"><em>Life of Antony</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><span>Todd Berzon, </span><a href="doi.org/10.1177/1476993X17743454"; rel="nofollow">“Ethnicity and Early Christianity: New Approaches Religious Kinship and Community”</a><span> </span></p><p><br></p><p><span>David Brakke, </span><a href="jstor.org/stable/3704758"; rel="nofollow">“Ethiopian Demons: Male Sexuality, the Black-Skinned Other, and the Monastic Self”</a></p><p><br></p><p><span>David Brakke, </span><a href="hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674066038…; rel="nofollow"><em>The Gnostics</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><span>Denise Kimber Buell’s </span><a href="jstor.org/stable/10.7312/buel13334"; rel="nofollow"><em>Why This New Race? Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity.</em></a><span> </span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Anthea Butler, </span><a href="uncpress.org/book/9781469661179/white-evangeli…; rel="nofollow"><em>White Evangelical Racism</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><span>Aaron P. Johnson, “</span><a href="jstor.org/stable/4125292"; rel="nofollow">The Blackness of Ethiopians: Classical Ethnography and Eusebius's Commentary on the Psalms</a><span>” </span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Philip Mayerson, </span><a href="jstor.org/stable/1509622"; rel="nofollow">“Anti-Black sentiment in the Vitae Patrum” </a></p><p><br></p><p><span>Teresa Morgan, “Society, Identity, Ethnicity” in </span><a href="bloomsbury.com/uk/ethnicity-race-religion-9780…; rel="nofollow"><em>Ethnicity</em>, <em>Race, Religion</em>, ed. Hockey & Horrell</a></p><p><br></p><p><span>Origen </span><a href="tertullian.org/fathers/origen_on_prayer_02_tex…; rel="nofollow">“On Prayer”</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="google.com/books/edition/The_Desert_Fathers/Uk…; rel="nofollow"><em>Sayings of the Desert Fathers</em></a></p><p><br></p>