Ryan Boehm of Tulane has reviewed a new collected volume on the problem of locating ancient Jewish and early Christian/Jewish-Christian sodalities in the social landscape of the ancient city. Were […]
BMCR has posted a review by Mark Roblee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) of the recent volume of Eleni Pachoumi and Mark J. Edwards (eds.), Praying and contemplating in late antiquity: […]
A new volume from De Gruyter, a collection on late-antique treatments of the daimôn, collects papers from a conference on the subject. As such, the quality of the contributions vary […]
Our friends at Mohr Siebeck, who publish all manner of good stuff for Classicists, early-Church historians, and so on, have hit it out of the park with two new releases. […]
Tony Burke. New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures vol. 2. Eerdmans. A compilation of apocryphal Christian texts, many translated into English for the first time, with comprehensive introductions. Contents: Introduction, […]
I’m excited to see that Nicola Spanu‘s new book on the great Neoplatonist Proclus ‘the Successor’ and theurgy will be published in August 2020, by Routledge. Surely one that will […]
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 […]
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