Courtesy of Prof. Brent Nongbri, rockstar: The projectWe are excited to recruit two postdoctoral research fellows to the project The Early History of the Codex: A New Methodology and Ethics […]
There are loads of conferences and workshops on Neoplatonism, and especially Plotinus, happening in the coming weeks. Particularly promising among them is “The presence of Plotinus: the self, contemplation, and […]
Below you find a link for the new book of Emilie Kutash, Goddesses of Myth and Cultural Memory, available through Bloomsbury and on Amazon: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/goddesses-in-myth-and-cultural-memory-9780567697400/ Here is a description from […]
Registration is open for the 11th Enoch Seminar, Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception. When: May 23-27, 2021 Where: Online Chairs: Loren Stuckenbruck, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Gabriele Boccaccini Registration is now […]
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This is a review from BMCR which slipped between the cracks in November, but is surely of interest to followers of this site. Stray, Christopher, C. B. R. Pelling and […]
The Encyclopædia Iranica is an invaluable resource for anything Iran- or Persia-related. For followers of this site, that includes Manichaeism, Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism, and of course Persian and Syriac literature, […]
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 […]
Lovers of the Pythagoreans — the actual followers of the historical Pythagoras, or those following those followers — will be excited to see that Carl Huffman, who has done us […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new book on demons and angels in Neoplatonism has just been reviewed in BMCR by Cesare Sinatti – you can read the review here. The book is: Luc Brisson, […]
‘The Coptic Magical Papyri: Vernacular Religion in Late Roman and Early Islamic Egypt is a five-year research project (2018-2023) based at the Chair of Egyptology of the Julius Maximilian University […]
Courtesy of BMCR: Nicholas Banner, Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. ix, 299. ISBN 9781107154629. £75.00. Reviewed by John Dillon, Trinity […]
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Oxford University) has just published a review at BMCR of a Christopher Faraone, The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times. Empire and after (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania […]
Attilio Mastrocinque’s work is nothing if not distinctive. His From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism is one of those books that comes at the old problems from a very different perspective. […]
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. […]
Pauly-Wissowa’s Realencyclopädie (or in its full title, Paulys Realencyclopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft) is an indispensable resource for the study of the ancient world. Curious about a name, place, or person […]
This one has many of the big names in this field, including the NSEA’s very own Dr Dylan Burns. This should be an essential conference for those interested in the […]
The Sixth Annual Workshop on Ancient Jewish Magic and its Wider Contexts 3 and 6 June 2021Israel time (GMT+3)(via Zoom) Thursday, 3 June17:00 – 18:30Marco Moriggi (Università di Catania): Syriac […]
John Finamore has shared the sad news of the passing of one of the greatest and most prolific scholars of later Platonism, H.-D. Saffrey. He writes: It is with great […]
