A New Book on Græco-Roman Magic Reviewed
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Drawing down the moon: magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019 The title of Radcliffe Edmond’s new book on magic in antiquity […]
BMCR review of Nongbri, God’s Library
BMCR has posted a lovely review of Brent Nongbri’s fantastic 2018 monograph, God’s Library, copied below. As for me, I couldn’t recommend the book more. For Nongbri’s wonderful blog on […]
In memoriam: Kurt Rudolph (1929-2020)
Another lion in the study of Gnosticism has left us. Rudolph’s majesterial synthesis Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism, was the first book I ever read on the subject. […]
Álvarez on Kotwick, Der Papyrus von Derveni
Below you find a review from Bryn Mawr Classical Review on an important, recent edition (with introduction, text, commentary) of the Derveni Papyrus, as important a source for ancient Orphism […]
R.I.P. Thomas Lambdin
Some readers of this site may recognize Lambdin as the translator of the Gospel of Thomas in Robinson’s classic volume The Nag Hammadi Library in English. Lambdin’s Introduction to Sahidic […]
Online Egyptological Bibliography: [Temporary] Free Access
Lovers of things ancient-Egyptian may wish to check out the University of Oxford’s Online Egyptological Bibliography, which is being made open-access during the Covid-19 crisis.They catalogue basically everything which is […]
PhD Scholarship in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Origins at Groningen
courtesy of Prof. Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta: PhD Scholarship in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Origins (B076220) Scholarship opportunities The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, […]
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