New Books of Interest
Two new volumes may be of interest to lovers of ancient esotericism. We have, forthcoming: Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near EastTyson L. PutthoffHardbackISBN: 9781108490542$ 99.99 (C) CUP says: […]
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Two New Books
A couple of new titles have come through the inbox which may be of interest to scholars of antique esotericism. The first is a new Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature. […]
A new commentary on Philo’s On the Contemplative Life
Brill’s Philo series marches on with a new trans and comm on one of the Alexandrian’s greatest (and most esoteric) works, wherein he describes a group of Jewish-Platonist sages doing […]
The Three Amigos: Solomon, Jesus, and Aristotle
A curious-looking little book is out from De Gruyter, by Yaacov Shavit from Tel Aviv University. It focuses ‘on places and instances where Solomon’s legendary biography intersects with those of […]
New book on sacrifice in later antiquity
In a new book Robert J. Daly S.J. examines the concept of sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world, and discusses how the rise of bloodless Christian sacrifice, and the use […]
Pre-Print: Esoteric Knowledge in Ancient Sciences
The Max Planck Institute has made available a pre-print for what looks to be an absolutely amazing volume: Markham J. Geller and Klaus Geus, edd. Esoteric Knowledge in Antiquity (TOPOI […]
New Book: The Antichrist Tradition in Antiquity
A new book by Mateusz Kusio, entitled The Antichrist Tradition in Antiquity: Antimessianism in Second Temple and Early Christian Literature, is out from Mohr Siebeck. At 84 euros, it is […]
