The website for the 2023 ISNS conference is online, and may be found here. Submissons of papers to individual panels or to the organizers are welcome until January 15, 2023!
Courtesy of John Finamore: Prof. Finamore, together with Loredana Cardullo and Chiara Militello, is pleased to announce the call for panels for the 20th annual ISNS conference, to be held […]
…And applications focusing on ancient studies are most welcome! For the original post, see here. Two PhD Positions at the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies Faculteit/Dienst: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen Opleidingsniveau: Master Functie […]
Reposting a review from BMCR that slipped through my fingers in 2021 – definitely an important discussion of an important new book, particularly for readers of the Hermetica. Marina Escolano-Poveda, The […]
The newly established ERC-project DEMBIB (From Texts to Literature:Demotic Egyptian Papyri and the Formation of the Hebrew Bible), whichis funded by the European Research Council, is advertising theposition of a […]
The Faculty of Theology invites applications for a 3-year position as Postdoctoral Fellow in the ERC-funded research project Storyworlds in Transition: Coptic Apocrypha in Changing Contexts in the Byzantine and […]
The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool is seeking to appoint an individual to a permanent post in Egyptology and Classics / Ancient History, which […]
Reposted from BMCR, a review by NSEA’s own Nicholas Banner on a new volume on heavenly journeys and tours of the underworld: Seelenreise und Katabasis: Einblicke ins Jenseits in antiker […]
FCT-funded positions at HPhil Research Group, Lisbon The HPhil Research Group, Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (CFUL), welcomes expressions of interest from suitably qualified candidates interested in applying […]
This project creates the first exhibition dedicated to Mithras, one of the most fascinating deities in Ancient Rome, a god of Persian origins who generated an immensely popular cult, as […]
Scholarship opportunities The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and the Faculty of Arts offer a four-year scholarship to complete a PhD within a joint interdisciplinary project. The proposed PhD […]
Position TitleClassical Studies, Assistant Professor in Ancient Science, Tenure-Track Job CategoryUniversity Faculty Job TypeFull-Time FLSA StatusExempt CampusRogers Park-Lake Shore Campus Location CodeCLASSICAL STUDIES (02106A) Department NameCLASSICAL STUDIES Is this split […]
The Freie Universität Berlin has launched the website for its project researching the formations of ancient zodiacal and mathematised cosmology in the near east and beyond, seeking ‘to develop a […]
Ancient esotericism-specialists may know M. David Litwa’s work from his Hermetica II volume or elsewhere. In a new OUP offering he addresses the problem of how the idea of an […]
The interface of esotericism with the history of biblical literature, and Christianity and Judaism more widely, is understudied. It’s great to see a new volume focusing on apocryphal and esoteric […]
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: […]
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 […]
An up-to-date study of the ancient Hermetica in their Egyptian context with attention to Egyptian, Greek, and Gnostic sources alike – a sort of sequel to Mahé’s Hermès en Haute-Égypte – […]
Conference: Charms, Charmers, and Charming When: May 22 – 24, 2019 Where: University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) Deadline for abstracts: December 1, 2018 From the organizers: The Department of Lingue, Letterature […]
Since the ’90s, the standard English translation of the Corpus Hermeticum has been Copenhaver’s Hermetica. It remains a very useful tool, but one way in which it is inferior to […]
Brent Nongbri’s work will be familiar to many followers of this website, principally his terrific book Before Religion, a wonderful critique of the usage of the category ‘religion’ in the […]
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 […]
ESSWE7: Western Esotericism and Consciousness, Visions, Voices, Altered States Where: University of Amsterdam When: July 2-4, 2019 Deadline: October 1st, 2018 Website From the organizers: The history of Western esotericism […]
Courtesy of April DeConick: the newest issue of Gnosis: Journal for Gnostic Studies is guest-curated by Christian Bull, and features a collection of new papers on Hermetism. (It doesn’t get […]
There are loads of new volumes including papers on the Nag Hammadi texts these days. The study of Gnosticism really has transformed over the last twenty years, in wonderful and […]
I am very happy to draw attention to the forthcoming publication of Nicholas Banner’s Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). I was lucky enough […]
From the website at Brill: Apocalyptic Thinking in Early Judaism. Engaging with John Collins’ ‘The Apocalyptic Imagination.’ Edited by Cecilia Wassen and Sidnie White Crawford. Supplements to the Journal for the Study […]
NSEA members and readers of this blog will want to know about the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP). Created by Earl Fontainelle, a researcher of esotericism, the podcast […]
The (First) Apocalypse of James is an early Christian Gnostic apocalypse extant in two different Coptic versions, Nag Hammadi Codex V and the Tchacos Codex. These Coptic works are generally […]
This new volume of papers looks terrific, and includes a number of studies about Gnosticism as well as ancient wisdom traditions more generally. The volume is a Festschrift for Prof. […]
This international conference will be held 19 to 21 July 2023 at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. It looks like a stacked card. See the flyer here.
Leiden, 18-20 January 2024 Organizers: Bert van den Berg and Hugo Koning Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the conference Plato’s Myths: Tools for […]
See below the very interesting CfP from Ionut Bancila, for the upcoming meeting of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft: 01Open Esotericism? Die Spezifik der Rezeption esoterischer Diskurse im Ostchristentum Der […]
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. […]
The Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (https://www.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/en/bergsas/index.html) is offering two doctoral scholarships (Oct. 2023-Sept.2027) funded by the Graduate School Scholarship Program (GSSP) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to earn a PhD in […]
This panel might be of some interest to our subscribers: The panel ‘Fear, terror and horror in Graeco-Latin Antiquity and its Reception in Popular Culture’ of the 14th Celtic Conference […]
The Prometheus Trust Conference is a very interesting gathering of scholars of Platonism, Platonists of various stripes, and usually has a nice, esoteric edge to proceedings. Here is their announcement/CfP […]
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