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EP: 398 Phobetron and The Age of Monsters with Dr. Judd Burton & Doug Van Dorn
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What if the writers of the New Testament were intentionally hijacking the greatest myths of the ancient world to tell the true story of Jesus? Doug Van Dorn and Dr. Judd Burton return to break down the art of biblical subversion, the strategy of entering an opponent's story and retelling it through the lens of the gospel. Luke, the comic book nerd of the apostolic age, filled his two-volume masterwork with deliberate allusions to Homer, Virgil, and Greek mythology, using the very names and narratives his Hellenistic audience would have recognized to show the supremacy of Christ over the gods of the nations. From the Aeneid parallels in Acts 9 to the Watcher numbers hidden in Acts 23, from…