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 […]
Postdoc at Alchemies of Scent (Prague)
The project Alchemies of Scent, hosted at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, has advertised an opening for a 5-year postdoc, copied below (original website here): […]
BMCR: Dosoo on Iaô sabaôth
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.07.35: Roxanne Sarrazin Bélanger, Alain Delattre, Daniel Demaiffe, Natasja De Winter, Alain Martin, Georges Raepsaet, Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier, Iaô sabaôth: pratiques magiques dans la cité des Tongres: une […]
R.I.P. Robert Rittner
Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, via AGADE (see original post here): July 26, 2021 The OI community mourns the loss of our dear friend and […]
Doctoral position in the study of of Coptic magic (Würzburg)
23-month Position in the Study of Coptic Magic (doctoral) The project The Coptic Magical Papyri: Vernacular Religion in Roman and Early Islamic Egypt at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg is pleased to […]
Spanu, Proclus and the Chaldæan Oracles Reviewed
Nicola Spanu’s new book looks at Proclus’ use of the Chaldæan Oracles, a revelatory hexameter text of a Platonistic vein from the second century, in an attempt to determine what […]
doctoral position (theology, New Testament) available in Münster
The deadline is 17 July – in less than two weeks. Facility with German required. Details below: 45.000 Studierende, 8.000 Beschäftigte in Lehre, Forschung und Verwaltung, die gemeinsam Zukunftsperspektiven gestalten […]
