BMCR: Banner on Männlein-Robert, Seelenreise und Katabasis
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 […]
Research positions in philosophy, Lisbon
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 […]
A new trans. and comm. on Philo’s De vita contemplativa
Joan Taylor, David M. Hay, Philo of Alexandria “On the contemplative life”: introduction, translation, and commentary. Philo of Alexandria commentary series, volume 7. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xxviii, 427. […]
Exhibition: The Mystery of Mithras, Royal Museum of Mariemont, 20th of November 2021-7th of April 2022
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 […]
PhD Scholarship: Groningen, Gnosticism and Philosophy
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 […]
JOB: Assistant Professor in Ancient Science (Loyola University Chicago)
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 […]
ZODIAC: Ancient Astral Science in Transformation
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 […]
Colloquium on Apuleius’ De mundo
George Boys-Stones and the University of Toronto are putting on a workshop on Apuleius’ translation of (Ps.)Aristotle’s On the World, a very important and under-researched document in the history of […]
A new book on the ‘evil creator’ idea as a Christian innovation
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 […]
New collection of essays on the Pseudo(?)Aristotelean De mundo
The De mundo is an under-researched classic of ancient thought with major ramifications for western esotericism, in particular the ‘cosmic religion’ highlighted by Festugière in the Revelation d’Hermes Trismegiste. The […]
new book: Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
New book: The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus
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 – […]
CFP: Charms, Charmers, and Charming
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 […]
Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction
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 […]
God’s Library and Variant Readings
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 […]
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 […]
CFP: ESSWE7 Western Esotericism and Consciousness
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 […]
Gnosis volume 3.1: Hermetism
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 […]
New Book: The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt
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 […]
New Book: Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus
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 […]
New book: Apocalyptic Thinking in Early Judaism
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 […]
Podcast: Secret History of Western Esotericism
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 […]
Greek Fragments of the First Apocalypse of James discovered
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 […]
New Book: Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity
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. […]
Lectureship in Egyptology and Classics/Ancient History @ Liverpool
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 […]
Postdocs: Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communities
Call for Applications Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Associates to participate in the research project Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communities: Judaism, Christianity and Islam Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ, USA) and University of […]
Near-Eastern, Rabbinic, or Patristic fellowship at Cambridge
Cook-Crone Research Bye-Fellowship 2022-23 Gonville & Caius College invites applications for research in one ofthe following fields:· Biblical studies, including Rabbinics and Patristics· The […]
New Book: The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World
This volume looks very promising indeed. Table of Contents Part 1 Setting the Stage 1 Contextualizing the Study of Ecstatic Experience in Ancient Old World Societies Sarah Kielt Costello 2 […]
Leuven Colloquia on Ancient Platonism
The Leuven Colloquia on Ancient Platonism (LCAP) is a new lecture series on the history of ancient Platonism (from the Early Academy to Late Antiquity), traditionally an important field of […]
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