New work on Enoch tradition reviewed
John C. Reeves and Annette Yoshiko Reed. Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Volume 1, Sources from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Oxford, 2018. This new book looks very useful; […]
Author Archives: Earl Fontainelle
Highly-anticipated publication of Mazur’s The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism
Zeke Mazur’s University of Chicago PhD thesis (2010) argued for a Sethian Gnostic background to much of the ‘participative metaphysics’ found in Plotinus’ discussions of ascent to and union with […]
Crit. Edit. and Translation of the ‘Community Rule’
From the SBL website: The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with TranslationSarianna Metso The discovery and translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed our understanding of the life and history […]
New edition of Aristoxenus from Carl Huffman
Lovers of the Pythagoreans — the actual followers of the historical Pythagoras, or those following those followers — will be excited to see that Carl Huffman, who has done us […]
New Trans. and Comm. on Philo’s On the Life of Abraham
Brill’s Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series has a new entry, a translation and commentary by Ellen Birnbaum and John Dillon of Philo’s De Abrahamo. We are slowly getting closer to […]
New OUP translation of Jewish Apocrypha
This may be of interest to some; Jewish apocrypha in English. Here is what the OUP says about the book: The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha Edited by Jonathan Klawans and Lawrence […]
Dreams of Antiquity 2.0
The Dreams of Antiquity database has been upgraded. This is an online searchable database of dreams and visionary accounts from ancient literature. This resource should be of great interest to […]
