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Backgrounds to the Bible, 156 episodes. Page 2 of 2.

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Xenophon: Anabasis - True Leadership in Crisis

102

Thucydides: Moral Lessons from the Historian Who Saw Too Much

103

Thucydides: The Peace We Cannot Keep

104

Thucydides: Pericles' Funeral Oration - Ideal Athens vs. the City of God

105

Thucydides: Was Luke Influenced by Thucydides?

106

Thucydides: The Death of Truth

107

Thucydides: How Hubris Destroyed the Athenian Empire

108

Thucydides: The Melian Dialog — Might Makes Right

109

Thucydides: Histories of the Peloponnesian War

110

Pindar's Odes

111

Aristophanes: The Wasps

112

Aristophanes: Plutus

113

Aristophanes: Knights

114

Aristophanes: The Frogs

115

Aristophanes: Peace

116

Aristophanes: Lysistrata

117

Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae

118

Aristophanes: The Clouds

119

Aristophanes: The Birds

120

Aristophanes: Acharnians

121

Euripides: Hippolytus and the Transforming Power of the Holy Spirit

122

Euripides: Heracleidae and Christ's Perfect Atonement

123

Euripides: The Cyclops and the Grace, Humility, and Truth of Christ

124

Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis and the Cross of Christ

125

Euripides: Bacchae — Dionysian Horror and the Merciful Christ

126

Euripides: Orestes and Redemptive Grace

127

Euripides: The Trojan Women and Divine Justice

128

Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris and the End of Violence

129

Euripides: Electra and Breaking the Cycle of Retribution

130

Euripides: Medea and the Destructive Power of Revenge

131

Euripides: Alcestis and Christ's Self-Sacrifice

132

Euripides: Andromache and the Breaking of the Cycle of Suffering

133

Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus and Christ the Ultimate Suppliant

134

Sophocles: Philoctetes and the Wounded Christ

135

Sophocles: Electra — Retribution and Forgiveness

136

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex — The Blind King and the Light of Scripture

137

Sophocles: Trachiniae and the God who Enters Our Tragedy

138

Sophocles: Antigone and the Clash of Conscience with Tyranny

139

Sophocles: Ajax and the Gospel’s Cure for Shame

140

How Herodotus Confirms Old Testament Prophecy

141

Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound — The Counterfeit Savior

142

Aeschylus: The Eumenides — Guilt and the Cross

143

Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers — Justice without Mercy

144

Aeschylus: Agamemnon — A World without Grace

145

Aeschylus: The Suppliants — Radical Hospitality

146

Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes — Mercy and Accountability

147

Aeschylus: The Persians — Pride Goes Before a Fall

148

Sappho: What is Love?

149

Homer: The Odyssey — The Survivor vs. the Savior

150

Homer: The Iliad — From Rage to Redemption

151

Hesiod: Theogony and the God of the Bible

152

Hesiod: Works and Days vs. a Biblical View of Work

153

Herodotus: Hubris and Nemesis vs. the Mercy of God

154

Herodotus: The Fall of Babylon and the Bible

155

A History of God's Dwelling with Man

156

The Code of Hammurabi and Mosaic Law

157

The Enuma Elish and Biblical Creation

158

The Egyptian Book of the Dead vs. Divine Grace

159

The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Quest for Immortality

160

The Pyramid Texts and the Biblical View of Eternal Life