new book: Alexandria. Hub of the Hellenistic World
A large collection of what appear to be lovely papers on ancient Alexandria, and its relationship to ancient Judaism and Christianity, has now been published. For more, see the book’s […]
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new book: Kingreen, Tertullians Schrift Adversus Valentinianos
Below you find information (from the book’s official website at Mohr Siebeck, here) regarding the recent publication of a revised dissertation completed at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin on an ancient […]
new book: A Prophet Has Arrived
Ad for an important new sourcebook via AGADE: A Prophet Has Appeared. The Rise of Islam through Christian and JewishEyes, A Sourcebookby Stephen J. Shoemaker (Author)March 2021Hardcover, 320$90.00, £74.00Paperback$34.95, £29.00Pages: […]
New book (in German) on the Hermetic Asclepius
https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/die-goettliche-weisheit-des-hermes-trismegistos-9783161555527 Die göttliche Weisheit des Hermes TrismegistosPseudo-Apuleius, AsclepiusHerausgegeben von Dorothee Gall. Eingeleitet, übersetzt und mitinterpretierenden Essays versehen von Sydney H. Aufrère, Dorothee Gall,Claudio Moreschini, Zlatko Pleše, Joachim F. Quack, Heike […]
A new book on the ‘Orphic’ problem
Anthi Chrysanthou, Defining orphism: the beliefs, the teletae and the writings. Trends in classics. supplementary volumes; volume 94. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xi, 415. ISBN 9783110678390 $137.99. Another […]
Review of Rediscovering E. R. Dodds
This is a review from BMCR which slipped between the cracks in November, but is surely of interest to followers of this site. Stray, Christopher, C. B. R. Pelling and […]
Two New Books of Interest
A new collection on the great Emperor Julian (still called ‘the Apostate’ in the title, in a remarkable acceptance of Christian value-judgements) is out from Brill. A look at the […]
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