New Book Scrutinising Ancient Voces Magicæ Reviewed
Our subscribers may know of the CENOB database — that’s Corpus des énoncés des noms barbares — an attempt to put together something like a definitive list of every unintelligible […]
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CfP for Conference on Mediæval Faith, Heresy, and Magic
CALL FOR PAPERS for the joint session of the study group “Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages” (AGSFM) and study group “Christian Archaeology” (AGCA) at the 10th German Archaeology Congress […]
Conference: Magic in Late Antiquity. Objects, Texts and Contexts Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, March 1-3, 2020
Organised by Avigail Manekin-Bamberger, Gideon Bohak, and Yakir Paz, this looks like a good one! Check out the schedule, which we are giving in full here as there’s no obvious […]
A New Study of Plotinus Reviewed
John Dillon has reviewed (very positively) the recent Plotinian study by J.-F. Pradeau. Of special interest might be Chapter 8 on ‘The One: First, Ineffable, Ungraspable’, which approaches Plotinus’ fascinatingly […]
Christian Bull’s new book on the Hermetic tradition reviewed
The question of a religious tradition lying behind the texts making up the Corpus Hermeticum (and related texts, such as the fragments preserved by Stobæus) has been of perennial interest […]
A New French Translation of a ‘Bardesanite’ Syriac Book
Bardaisan of Edessa is not the best known ancient thinker, probably because his works circulated in Syriac, unlike the Greek provenance of most better-known early Christian writing, but he is […]
Call for Papers: International Society for Heresy Studies New York Conference
The International Society for Heresy Studies are an interesting bunch. By no means focused (only) on late antiquity, when the idea of heresy was invented, they are interested in all […]
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