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Monthly Archives: July 2018

Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction

Featuredby dmb93

Since the ’90s, the standard English translation of the Corpus Hermeticum has been Copenhaver’s Hermetica. It remains a very useful tool, but one way in which it is inferior to […]

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CFP: The Gnostics of the Ancient Near East

July 21, 2018by Sarah L. Veale

Conference: The Gnostics of the Ancient Near East When: July 8-10, 2019 Where: Oriental Institute, University of Oxford Website (Via Fasti Congressum) The ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is seeking […]

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Conference: The Uncanny in the Ancient World

July 18, 2018by Earl Fontainelle

The University of Liverpool is hosting an interesting-looking conference with the title: The Frightful and the Familiar: Exploring the Uncanny in the Ancient World. It looks from the programme (which […]

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God’s Library and Variant Readings

Featuredby dmb93

Brent Nongbri’s work will be familiar to many followers of this website, principally his terrific book Before Religion, a wonderful critique of the usage of the category ‘religion’ in the […]

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Neoplatonic Demons and Angels

July 14, 2018by dmb93

Looking forward to this one, Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, Volume: 20. Neoplatonic Demons and Angels. Edited by Luc Brisson, Seamus O’Neill and Andrei Timotin. Leiden: Brill, […]

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Conference: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices

July 13, 2018by dmb93

Two archaeological discoveries from the 1940s irrevocably changed the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism: the unearthing of the Gnostic codices found near Nag Hammadi (Upper Egypt) in 1945, and of […]

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