A new book on ‘Imperial Eschatology’ and early Islam
A new book is out, which may be worth checking out for those interested in the intersections between politics, eschatology, and religious currents of late antiquity: Stephen J. Shoemaker, The […]
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New book: Catana, Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought
Leo Catana, Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought (International Archives of the History of Ideas 227; Leiden: Springer, 2019). This book promises to be a stimulating study in the […]
new book: Mary Magdalene from the New Testament to the New Age and Beyond
Edmondo F. Lupieri, ed., Mary Magdalene from the New Testament to the New Age and Beyond (Themes in Biblical Narrative; Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019). The book includes intriguing studies of […]
new book: Hermes Explains
Fresh off the presses is the twentieth-anniversary volume of the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. It is an introductory, apologetic (in […]
new book: The Gospel of Judas
There is no shortage of editions and translations of infamous The Gospel of Judas. (On Judas’s Gospel, see here.) Why another? Because it is a relatively newly-published text, having been […]
New book: Dufault, Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity
…I am finishing a project of my own this summer and so have been a delinquent blogger, and will remain so for a while longer. However, I cannot let pass […]
A new critical edition of ‘The Books of Jeu’
With its descriptions of celestial topography, mysterious sigils and diagrams, and a baptism of fire, the so-called ‘Books of Jeu’ in the Bruce Codex (itself a misnomer, as the ‘codex’ […]
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