The SBL & AAR meetings are going online in 2020
As officially announced on another page: For the first time ever, the 2020 Annual Meetings, hosted by SBL (Society of Biblical Literature) & AAR (American Academy of Religion), will be […]
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Online conference on the Aramaic Enoch
From Paleojudaica: ONLINE CONFERENCE: 2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference. From the Books of Enoch to Genesis Apocryphon: Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch and Related Aramaic Traditions from Qumran October 20-22, 2020 […]
New collection of Szlezák’s essays
Thomas A. Szlezák is the foremost living exponent of the so-called Tübingenschule of Platonic interpretation, arguing that Plato was an esotericist (with very specifically-defined parameters and ramifications for reading his […]
New Book on ‘Gnostic Countercultures’
The reading of ‘Gnosticism’ as fundamentally associated with a rebel spirituality or counterculture has a long history, and is alive and well in some scholarship on ancient Gnosticism. A new […]
Postdoc in Brussels seeking Egyptologist/Archæologist
The department ‘Collections and Research – Scientific Documentation’ of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels (Belgium) is looking for an egyptologist/archaeologist (post-doc, 100%, fixed-term position from 1 […]
Three books that may be of interest
There has been a lot of interesting stuff published recently, such that we wanted to mention three very different books in this post. The letters of Gregory of Nazianzus have […]
Review of new book on Private Associations and Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities
Ryan Boehm of Tulane has reviewed a new collected volume on the problem of locating ancient Jewish and early Christian/Jewish-Christian sodalities in the social landscape of the ancient city. Were […]
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