New book on sacrifice in later antiquity
In a new book Robert J. Daly S.J. examines the concept of sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world, and discusses how the rise of bloodless Christian sacrifice, and the use […]
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Pre-Print: Esoteric Knowledge in Ancient Sciences
The Max Planck Institute has made available a pre-print for what looks to be an absolutely amazing volume: Markham J. Geller and Klaus Geus, edd. Esoteric Knowledge in Antiquity (TOPOI […]
Highly-anticipated publication of Mazur’s The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism
Zeke Mazur’s University of Chicago PhD thesis (2010) argued for a Sethian Gnostic background to much of the ‘participative metaphysics’ found in Plotinus’ discussions of ascent to and union with […]
New translations of Plotinus from Parmenides Publishing
Parmenides Publishing is about to release two more in its series of translations of Plotinus’ Enneads, in their series ‘Introducing the Enneads of Plotinus.’ The series offers state-of-the-art, original translations […]
Crit. Edit. and Translation of the ‘Community Rule’
From the SBL website: The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with TranslationSarianna Metso The discovery and translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed our understanding of the life and history […]
New edition of Aristoxenus from Carl Huffman
Lovers of the Pythagoreans — the actual followers of the historical Pythagoras, or those following those followers — will be excited to see that Carl Huffman, who has done us […]
New Trans. and Comm. on Philo’s On the Life of Abraham
Brill’s Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series has a new entry, a translation and commentary by Ellen Birnbaum and John Dillon of Philo’s De Abrahamo. We are slowly getting closer to […]
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