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Step into the cradle of civilization and discover the secrets of ancient Mesopotamia. This podcast delves deep into the rich history, groundbreaking innovations, and profound cultural legacies of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. From the rise of Sumer and the grandeur of Babylon to the enigmatic stories of Assyria and Akkad, *Mysteries of Mesopotamia* explores how this ancient region shaped the world as we know it. Discover how the Mesopotamians revolutionized human progress ...
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The Ancients

History Hit

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A podcast for all ancient history fans! The Ancients is dedicated to discussing our distant past. Featuring interviews with historians and archaeologists, each episode covers a specific theme from antiquity. From Neolithic Britain to the Fall of Rome. Hosted by Tristan Hughes. New episodes every Sunday and Thursday. From History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts Dan Snow's History Hit, Gone Medieval, and Betwixt the Sheets. Sign up to History Hit fo ...
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Oldest Stories

James Bleckley

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History and myth of the Cradle of Civilization, bronze age Mesopotamia, beginning with the dawn of writing. The show will cover the full history of Mesopotamia, from Gilgamesh to Nabonidas, a span of some 2500 years, with myths of heroes and gods, and tales of daily life peppered throughout. Sumer, Akkad, Old Babylon, Hittites, and Israel have all been covered in depth, current episodes get deep into the Assyrian Empire. New episodes every other Wednesday. Online at oldeststories.net.
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Marathon Fellowship Class

Stonebriar Community Church

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Please join us. We are an active fellowship group taught by Wayne Stiles, Stanley Toussaint, and others with many activities, such as: Sound Bible teaching, Prayer ministry, Men’s and Women’s Bible studies, Missions support, Koinonia dinner groups, Women’s sweetheart breakfast, Men’s breakfast at the Mecca, Single women’s “Women of Worth.”
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History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, “Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique” by E. L. McClure and published in 1903-1904. Maspero was a largely self-taught master of hieroglyphic translation. In November 1880, he was placed at the head of a French archeological mission, which developed later into the Institut Français d’Archéol ...
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🎙️Welcome to the Lens and Veil podcast, join Shem, Sam and Zach as they discuss games they've played together, specifically focusing on game design elements. - ⭐About the Cast - Shem Phillips is the owner of Garphill Games and has designed a fair few board games. - Sam Macdonald is a Game Designer and Developer at Garphill Games, bursting onto the scene with his co-design together with Shem, Architects of the West Kingdom. - Zach Smith works for Garphill Games as Marketing and Media Manager, ...
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The One Year Bible Podcast 2025

Michael Wood, M.Ed.,M.S.

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Looking for a fun way to explore the Bible? Join Master Storyteller, Michael Wood, M.Ed., M.S., as he brings the easy-to-read version (ERV) of the Bible to life! Perfect for young Christians or those curious about the Good Book, our dramatized podcast features unique voices, thrilling music, and captivating sound effects. Dive into all 66 books with engaging introductions showing you how everything connects from Genesis to Revelation. Thanks to Bible League International, you can trust its a ...
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Thin End of the Wedge explores life in the ancient Middle East. There are many wonderful stories we can tell about those people, their communities, the gritty reality of their lives, their hopes, fears and beliefs. We can do that through the objects they left behind and the cities where they once lived. Our focus is on the cultures that used cuneiform (“wedge-shaped”) writing, so mostly on ancient Iraq and nearby regions from about 3000 BC to about 100 AD. Thin End of the Wedge brings you ex ...
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Day 258 of the Holy Bible One Year CHALLENGE. Assyria threatens Jerusalem, but King Hezekiah prays, and Isaiah prophesies their downfall; God delivers His people by smiting the Assyrian army. In Galatians, Paul visits Jerusalem, stands firm on the Gospel for Gentiles, and gets the thumbs-up from church pillars James, Peter, and John. Support the sh…
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Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East (University Press of Colorado, 2025) by Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni offers an in-depth exploration of the Urartian empire, which occupied the highlands of present-day Turkey, Armenia, and Iran in the early first millennium BCE. Lesser known than its rival, the Neo-Assyrian empire, …
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Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles shows how kayayei navigate precarity, bringing into sharp relief how racialization, rooted in histories of colonialis…
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Day 267 of the Holy Bible One Year CHALLENGE. God tells people to act right, calls out their wrongs, and promises to help those who say sorry. In Ephesians, Paul shares the mystery of the gospel, that all people, Jews and non-Jews, can be one in Christ, and prays for the Ephesians to truly grasp the vast love of Christ. Support the show at Patreon.…
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The times following Alemdar Mustafa Pasha’s death left Istanbul in a fragile equilibrium. Sultan Mahmud II, now in his late twenties, had survived both the fury of the Janissaries and the collapse of the Sekban- ı Cedid fraternity. Yet the megacity remained tense, the thoroughfares filled with the echoes of fire and rebellion, and the conglomerate …
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Day 266 of the Holy Bible One Year CHALLENGE. God extends a universal invitation for salvation, promises blessings and prosperity for the faithful, and condemns the wicked while emphasizing the importance of humility and genuine worship. In Ephesians 2, Paul highlights that believers are saved by grace through faith, transformed from death to life,…
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Turkey is among a league of revisionist powers who are challenging the world order. Erdogan and his Islamist movement have aimed to create the “New Turkey”, preparing for a future that is less dependent on Western treaty allies and with an alliance structure of its own. In New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country (…
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🎙️Welcome to the Lens and Veil podcast, join Shem, Sam and Zach as they discuss games they've played together, specifically focusing on game design elements. In this anniversary episode marking one year of Lens and Veil, they answer a variety of questions provided by fans in the Garphill Discord. 📜Chapters: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:00:55 - Which would you…
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Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in Chinese. The English translation has just come out with Palgrave Macmillan. Self as Method provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people t…
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Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 2025), is a groundbreaking book that recasts the role of knowledge in the making of a colonial and postcolonial nation. It makes a case for a new literary and intellectual-historical approach to Islam in Africa. The Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara (…
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Day 265 of the Holy Bible One Year CHALLENGE. Jerusalem is comforted after suffering, promises of God's everlasting love are given, and there's a beautiful portrayal of the future restoration through a divine Redeemer. In Ephesians, Paul writes to the Ephesians about God's eternal plan of salvation, emphasizing the spiritual blessings in Christ and…
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Day 264 of the Holy Bible One Year CHALLENGE. God promises to restore Israel, highlighting His unwavering commitment. He compares Himself to a loving mother who can't forget her child. Israel might feel forgotten, but God's like, "No way, I've got you tattooed on My hands!" Some seriously tough times are acknowledged, but hope's on the horizon. God…
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The compulsory service for young men in the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) created bonds across ethnic, religious, and social lines. These bonds persisted even after the horrific violence of the 1990s, in which many of these men found themselves on opposite sides of the front lines. In Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav Peopl…
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In Scotland’s Sacred Goddess: Hidden in Plain Sight (Luath Press, 2025), Stuart McHardy delves into the rich tapestry of pre-Christian Scottish beliefs, uncovering the enduring presence of ancient mythologies in today’s landscape. Long before the arrival of Christian monks, the Scots revered a pantheon of deities, with the Cailleach Goddess at its …
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Tristan Hughes journeys up to windswept Scotland to uncover the secrets of the Picts — fierce warriors, skilled artisans, enemies of Rome and rulers of the North. In this special episode of The Ancients - recorded on site at East Lomond hill fort and National Museums Scotland - Tristan is joined by Professor Gordon Noble and Dr. Martin Goldberg exp…
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The conglomerate had survived innumerous storms in its long history, but the early nineteenth century brought one of the most dangerous turning points. The grand trial of Selim III, the Nizam- ı Cedid, had offered a vision of renewal through discipline, European- style training, and ultramodern administration. Yet as with all reform in the Ottoman …
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Day 263 of the Holy Bible One Year CHALLENGE. Babylon gets a stern warning for its pride and evil deeds, while Israel is reminded of God's love and promises, and the Servant of the Lord is portrayed as a beacon of hope for the nations. In Galatians, Paul's a bit frustrated because the Galatians started strong in faith but got sidetracked by folks i…
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Offering Southern feminist assessments of detailed case studies from 12 countries, this open access book Pandemic Policies and Resistance: Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of Covid-19 (Bloomsbury, 2025) provides crucial insights into the gendered repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on macroeconomics, labour, migration and human mobilities, a…
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Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda (U of Chicago Press, 2024) by Dr. Shakirah Hudani examines a “material politics of repair” in post-genocide Rwanda, where in a country saturated with deep historical memory, spatial master planning aims to drastically redesign urban spaces. How is the post-conflict city reconst…
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Day 261 of the Holy Bible One Year CHALLENGE. God declares He's Israel's savior, urging them to remember past deeds, and assures He will pour out His Spirit, making Israel His chosen. In Galatians, believers are God's children through faith, equal in Christ; the law was our guardian, but now we're free; Paul expresses concern for the Galatians' fai…
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It was the biggest mass extinction event in Earth’s history. 250 million years ago, a 252 million years ago, Earth faced its deadliest crisis. 97% of all life was wiped out in the Permian Extinction – a cataclysm so severe it’s known as The Great Dying. In this episode of The Ancients, the fourth and final part of our Great Disasters miniseries, Tr…
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The bank of Navarino still hung over the Ionian Sea when news of the catastrophe reached Istanbul. Mahmud II, the stern and miscarrying sultan, entered the reports with unbelief. The obliteration of his cortege was n't simply a military disaster it was a demotion, a public stripping of sovereignty. For centuries, the Banquettes had mandated the bal…
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Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2025) by Dr. Dominic Davies & Dr. Candida Rifkind is the first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South. Co-written by two leading scholars of nonfiction comics, the book expl…
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Hadi Abdullah's Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution (DoppelHouse Press, 2025), translated by Alessandro Columbu, is no ordinary diary. It’s a testimony written in the heat of events (demonstrations in Daraa and Homs, the bombardments of Aleppo, sieges, and funerals). Through Hadi’s words, we glimpse the Syrian revolution not thro…
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The need for collective action has never been greater, but geopolitics, structural changes and diverging preferences mean that existing global governance arrangements, devised at Bretton Woods in the 1940s, are either unravelling or outmoded. Reconciling this contradiction is today's pressing global policy challenge. In New World New Rules: Global …
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Dani Belo's Russian Warfare in the 21st Century: An Incentive-Opportunity Intervention Model (Routledge, 2025) provides a comprehensive analysis of Russia's foreign policy in gray zone conflicts, with a particular focus on its interventions in Ukraine. Challenging conventional views, the book contends that Russia's use of varied gray zone tactics i…
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Day 260 of the Holy Bible One Year CHALLENGE. God assures Israel of His support against enemies, promising a chosen servant who'll bring justice to the nations. In Galatians, Paul says that relying on the law curses you, but faith in Christ blesses you; the law was a guardian until faith came. Support the show at Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/st…
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The dawn of 1821 set up the Ottoman Empire stretched to its limits. Sultan Mahmud II, hardened by times of conspiracy and rebellion, believed he'd eventually gained a measure of stability after suppressing the Serbs and defying the rebellious Ali Pasha of Ioannina. Yet the conglomerate’s internal sins, its decaying service, and the restless intenti…
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Day 259 of the Holy Bible One Year CHALLENGE. Hezekiah gets a life extension, shows off to Babylon, and Isaiah foretells Babylon's future threat; chapter 40 brings comfort and speaks of God's greatness. In Galatians, Paul calls out Peter for hypocrisy, defends justification by faith over works, and asks the Galatians why they'd revert to the law af…
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The dears of the Sublime Porte had slightly failed when Mahmud II mounted the throne as the sole surviving heir at law of the Ottoman dynasty. He was only twenty- three, yet formerly he carried the scars of a continuance of bloodshed. His kinsman Selim III had been boggled before his eyes. His family Mustafa IV, who tried to kill him, had been exec…
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A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity (U California Press, 2025) traces the rhetorical strategies of religious radicalization that encouraged fifth- and sixth-century miaphysite Christians to be willing to suffer physical deprivation and harm rather than abandon the church that th…
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When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his bleak and barbarous new surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world was where civilization ceased to exist. Our own fascination with the Greek and Roman world has for centuries followed this perspective, shrouding culture…
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The achievement of May 1807 had torn the Ottoman Empire from the hands of a utopian and placed it in the grip of men who knew only fear and tradition. Sultan Selim III, deposed after nearly two decades of struggle for reform, now sat in confinement within the Topkapı Palace. His lyrical soul still rumored of renewal, but his hands were bound, his v…
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Day 257 of the One Year Audio Bible Experience Podcast. Isaiah talks about the destruction of oppressors, describes God's majestic reign in Zion, and promises a glorious future for the redeemed with a highway called the 'Way of Holiness. In Galatians, Paul calls out the Galatians for quickly turning to a different gospel and defends his apostolic a…
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Lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war fought between two states in the twentieth century. It marked a period that began just after a revolutionary government in Iran became an Islamic Republic and Saddam Hussein consolidated power in Iraq. It ended with both wartime governments still in power…
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Was this the worst year in human history? Bubonic plague sweeps across the Mediterranean. The sun vanishes behind volcanic ash. Crops fail, famine bites, and the Roman empire lurches towards collapse. In this episode of The Ancients, the third in our special Great Disasters series, Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Kyle Harper to uncover the perfect s…
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The dawn of the nineteenth century set up Sultan Selim III both hopeful and uneasy. He'd survived storms that would have broken numerous autocrats — the French irruption of Egypt, the Janissaries’ growling, the endless wars on the conglomerate’s borders. His reforms, the Nizam- ı Cedid or New Order, had survived long enough to take root. But like y…
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