BMCR review of Nongbri, God’s Library
BMCR has posted a lovely review of Brent Nongbri’s fantastic 2018 monograph, God’s Library, copied below. As for me, I couldn’t recommend the book more. For Nongbri’s wonderful blog on […]
Monthly Archives: May 2020
In memoriam: Kurt Rudolph (1929-2020)
Another lion in the study of Gnosticism has left us. Rudolph’s majesterial synthesis Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism, was the first book I ever read on the subject. […]
Álvarez on Kotwick, Der Papyrus von Derveni
Below you find a review from Bryn Mawr Classical Review on an important, recent edition (with introduction, text, commentary) of the Derveni Papyrus, as important a source for ancient Orphism […]
R.I.P. Thomas Lambdin
Some readers of this site may recognize Lambdin as the translator of the Gospel of Thomas in Robinson’s classic volume The Nag Hammadi Library in English. Lambdin’s Introduction to Sahidic […]
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