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: […]

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Digital Syriac Corpus

Via PaleoJudaica (in turn reblogging AWOL): The Digital Syriac Corpus has been around for some time, and is starting to have a significant corpus of digitized Syriac texts available for […]

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Call for Papers: Secrecy and Sociogenesis: mysteries, restricted rituals, and the growth of religious communities

Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Nov. 18-21, 2023, San Antonio. Panel Deadline: March 18, 2023.  Submit abstracts here: https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=43&VolunteerUnitId=80 This panel is sponsored by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean religions. […]

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