New collected volume on demons/daimones in late antiquity
A new volume from De Gruyter, a collection on late-antique treatments of the daimôn, collects papers from a conference on the subject. As such, the quality of the contributions vary […]
Category Archives: Books
Two intriguing new titles from Mohr Siebeck
Our friends at Mohr Siebeck, who publish all manner of good stuff for Classicists, early-Church historians, and so on, have hit it out of the park with two new releases. […]
Apocryphal Scriptures in English Translation
Tony Burke. New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures vol. 2. Eerdmans. A compilation of apocryphal Christian texts, many translated into English for the first time, with comprehensive introductions. Contents: Introduction, […]
new book: Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles
I’m excited to see that Nicola Spanu‘s new book on the great Neoplatonist Proclus ‘the Successor’ and theurgy will be published in August 2020, by Routledge. Surely one that will […]
new book: Valentinian Christianity
I’ve been waiting for this one for a long time – a new reader of Valentinian sources, with Greek and Coptic facing new English translations, by Geoffrey S. Smith of […]
New Book: Jacob Licht on The Spiritual World of Second Temple Judaism
A new collection, which you can check out on the publisher’s website, from a prominent scholar of second temple Judaism. The first half is devoted to the Qumran finds, and […]
new book: Gardner, The Founder of Manichaeism
Iain Gardner, one of the world’s foremost experts on Manichaeism, has recently published with Cambridge a biography of the prophet of light himself, Mani. Here is the description from the […]
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