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 […]
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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 […]
New collected volume on demons/daimones in late antiquity
A new volume from De Gruyter, a collection on late-antique treatments of the daimôn, collects papers from a conference on the subject. As such, the quality of the contributions vary […]
Two intriguing new titles from Mohr Siebeck
Our friends at Mohr Siebeck, who publish all manner of good stuff for Classicists, early-Church historians, and so on, have hit it out of the park with two new releases. […]
Apocryphal Scriptures in English Translation
Tony Burke. New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures vol. 2. Eerdmans. A compilation of apocryphal Christian texts, many translated into English for the first time, with comprehensive introductions. Contents: Introduction, […]
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