Salaried PhD position in Denmark
1 PhD fellowship with the project Total Devotion – Passions and Plots in Radical Religion in the Ancient World Funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark Deadline for applications: October […]
Two new books on providence and fate: Burns, Did God Care?; Brouwer and Vermicati (eds.), Fate, Providence and Free Will
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 […]
The SBL & AAR meetings are going online in 2020
As officially announced on another page: For the first time ever, the 2020 Annual Meetings, hosted by SBL (Society of Biblical Literature) & AAR (American Academy of Religion), will be […]
job opening: assistant for Late Antique and Arabic Philosophy at LMU München
From Peter Adamson, via the ISNS mailing list: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is one of the largest and most esteemed institutions of higher learning in Germany, offering a wide range of academic […]
Online conference on the Aramaic Enoch
From Paleojudaica: ONLINE CONFERENCE: 2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference. From the Books of Enoch to Genesis Apocryphon: Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch and Related Aramaic Traditions from Qumran October 20-22, 2020 […]
how to make your own magical papyrus
Prof. Geoffrey Smith (UT Austin) will show you everything you need to know about how to make your own magical papyrus over at Ancient Jew Review – see here.
New collection of Szlezák’s essays
Thomas A. Szlezák is the foremost living exponent of the so-called Tübingenschule of Platonic interpretation, arguing that Plato was an esotericist (with very specifically-defined parameters and ramifications for reading his […]
