Conference: The Uncanny in the Ancient World
The University of Liverpool is hosting an interesting-looking conference with the title: The Frightful and the Familiar: Exploring the Uncanny in the Ancient World. It looks from the programme (which […]
God’s Library and Variant Readings
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 […]
Neoplatonic Demons and Angels
Looking forward to this one, Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, Volume: 20. Neoplatonic Demons and Angels. Edited by Luc Brisson, Seamus O’Neill and Andrei Timotin. Leiden: Brill, […]
Conference: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices
Two archaeological discoveries from the 1940s irrevocably changed the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism: the unearthing of the Gnostic codices found near Nag Hammadi (Upper Egypt) in 1945, and of […]
job openings: digital Coptic palaeography
Lots of positions involving Coptic in Europe, these days. This one is on the computer science side of digital humanities. The deadline is not far off: 1 July. Universität Basel, […]
Digital Syriac Corpus
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 […]
CFP: ESSWE7 Western Esotericism and Consciousness
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 […]
