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 […]
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Funded PhD Opportunity at Utrecht: Defining Platonism
From Mauro Bonazzi: A great opportunity for those looking for a PhD position in Ancient Philosophy (or in the modern reception of Ancient Philosophy). We welcome proposals on Plato, Platonism or Plato’s […]
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; […]
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 […]
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