Review: Massa on Marmodoro and Viltanioti (ed.), Divine Powers in Late Antiquity
Francesco Massa‘s review of a new book on divine powers in late antiquity has just been published at BMCR; you can read the review here. It looks like a terrific […]
Category Archives: Books
New book: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity. Edited by Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle Australia, Danielle A. Layne, Gonzaga University, Dirk Baltzly, University of Tasmania and Monash University, […]
New book: Stone, Secret Groups in Ancient Judaism
Just published last month is Michael Stone’s Secret Groups in Ancient Judaism (Oxford). In case the title alone does not grab followers of this website, the table of contents (see […]
Falcon on Lakmann, Platonici minores
Andrea Falcon has published at BMCR a handy summary and review of the (relatively) recent monograph of Marie-Luise Lakmann, Platonici minores: 1. Jh.v.Chr. – 2. Jh.n.Chr. Prosopographie. Fragmente und Testimonien […]
New book: Christians and Sethians
Herbert Schmid, author of a study of the Gospel of Philip, is publishing a new monograph on Christianity and Sethian (Gnosticism): Christen und Sethianer: Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion um den religionsgeschichtlichen […]
New Book: Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity
This new volume of papers looks terrific, and includes a number of studies about Gnosticism as well as ancient wisdom traditions more generally. The volume is a Festschrift for Prof. […]
BMCR review of Renz (ed.), Self-Knowledge: A History
Ursula Renz (ed.), Self-Knowledge: A History. Oxford philosophical concepts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii, 329. ISBN 9780190226428. $35.00 (pb). A book which should definitely be on the […]
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