This book looks very interesting; not esoteric per se, but an interesting study of Roman beliefs about the dead, the divinity of the dead, their power to act upon the […]
A blessed yuletide to all our colleagues. Here’s to an improved 2021! An interesting-looking book is out from Peeters, which covers a topic many of us have wondered about for […]
E.R. Dodds was one of the greats of twentieth-century study of ancient Græco-Roman religion. He wrote The Greeks and the Irrational, a book which many will know, if for no […]
Two new volumes may be of interest to lovers of ancient esotericism. We have, forthcoming: Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near EastTyson L. PutthoffHardbackISBN: 9781108490542$ 99.99 (C) CUP says: […]
A couple of new titles have come through the inbox which may be of interest to scholars of antique esotericism. The first is a new Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature. […]
Brill’s Philo series marches on with a new trans and comm on one of the Alexandrian’s greatest (and most esoteric) works, wherein he describes a group of Jewish-Platonist sages doing […]
A curious-looking little book is out from De Gruyter, by Yaacov Shavit from Tel Aviv University. It focuses ‘on places and instances where Solomon’s legendary biography intersects with those of […]
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