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Monthly Archives: February 2020

CfP for Conference on Mediæval Faith, Heresy, and Magic

February 29, 2020by Earl Fontainelle

CALL FOR PAPERS for the joint session of the study group “Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages” (AGSFM) and study group “Christian Archaeology” (AGCA) at the 10th German Archaeology Congress […]

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in manus tuas – Jan den Boeft 1935-2019

February 27, 2020by dmb93

Taking a look at the latest issue of Vigiliae Christianae, I stumbled across an obituary for this terrific scholar of Latin and the Latin tradition, whose passing in August of […]

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Conference: Magic in Late Antiquity. Objects, Texts and Contexts Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, March 1-3, 2020

February 24, 2020by Earl Fontainelle

Organised by Avigail Manekin-Bamberger, Gideon Bohak, and Yakir Paz, this looks like a good one! Check out the schedule, which we are giving in full here as there’s no obvious […]

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job: Syriac Cataloguing at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

February 14, 2020by dmb93

The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John’s University (SJU) invites applications for the full-time, benefit-eligible position of Cataloger of Syriac and Christian Arabic Manuscripts. This is a […]

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A New Study of Plotinus Reviewed

February 12, 2020by Earl Fontainelle

John Dillon has reviewed (very positively) the recent Plotinian study by J.-F. Pradeau. Of special interest might be Chapter 8 on ‘The One: First, Ineffable, Ungraspable’, which approaches Plotinus’ fascinatingly […]

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Christian Bull’s new book on the Hermetic tradition reviewed

February 12, 2020by Earl Fontainelle

The question of a religious tradition lying behind the texts making up the Corpus Hermeticum (and related texts, such as the fragments preserved by Stobæus) has been of perennial interest […]

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A New French Translation of a ‘Bardesanite’ Syriac Book

February 11, 2020by Earl Fontainelle

Bardaisan of Edessa is not the best known ancient thinker, probably because his works circulated in Syriac, unlike the Greek provenance of most better-known early Christian writing, but he is […]

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