New OUP translation of Jewish Apocrypha
This may be of interest to some; Jewish apocrypha in English. Here is what the OUP says about the book: The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha Edited by Jonathan Klawans and Lawrence […]
Category Archives: Books
Two new books on providence and fate: Burns, Did God Care?; Brouwer and Vermicati (eds.), Fate, Providence and Free Will
The end of summer has brought us not one but two new titles dealing with providence, fate, and free will in Roman philosophical and religious literature of the first centuries […]
New collection of Szlezák’s essays
Thomas A. Szlezák is the foremost living exponent of the so-called Tübingenschule of Platonic interpretation, arguing that Plato was an esotericist (with very specifically-defined parameters and ramifications for reading his […]
New Book on ‘Gnostic Countercultures’
The reading of ‘Gnosticism’ as fundamentally associated with a rebel spirituality or counterculture has a long history, and is alive and well in some scholarship on ancient Gnosticism. A new […]
Three books that may be of interest
There has been a lot of interesting stuff published recently, such that we wanted to mention three very different books in this post. The letters of Gregory of Nazianzus have […]
initial impressions of Ariel Sabar’s Veritas: a Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
Followers of this website (and contemporary media on ancient Christianity in general) may be familiar with the fiasco of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife that transpired ca. 2012-2016. (See here.) […]
Review of new book on Private Associations and Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities
Ryan Boehm of Tulane has reviewed a new collected volume on the problem of locating ancient Jewish and early Christian/Jewish-Christian sodalities in the social landscape of the ancient city. Were […]
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