August 24, 394. On the walls of a fading Egyptian temple, a priest carves what will become the last known hieroglyph in history. At the same moment, in Alexandria, a fiery archbishop named Theophilus is rising to power. He mocks the ancient Egyptian gods, desecrates their temples, and sets out to stamp out “paganism” for good. 
But Theophilus is fighting more than ancient religion—he clashes with monks, rivals, even fellow bishops, in a ruthless bid to make Alexandria the beating heart of the Christian world. What drives him to destroy? And can an entire faith really be erased?
Special thanks to our guests: Solange Ashby,  Assistant Professor of Egyptology and Nubian Studies at UCLA in Los Angeles, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Calling-out-to-Isis/dp/1463207158">Calling Out to Isis: the Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae</a>; Stephen Davis, Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of History at Yale University; and Christine Luckritz Marquis,  Associate Professor of Church History at Union Presbyterian Seminary, and author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Death-Desert-Monastic-Divinations-Rereading/dp/0812253620">Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt's Golden Age</a>.
Artwork: <a href="https://www.augustins.org/fr/notice/2004-1-156-saint-jean-chrysostome-et-l-imperatrice-eudoxie-de185e74-9ca9-4109-b15d-d858a67a30e5">Saint John Chrysostom and the Empress Eudoxia</a> by Jean-Paul Laurens.
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