New book: Stone, Secret Groups in Ancient Judaism
Just published last month is Michael Stone’s Secret Groups in Ancient Judaism (Oxford). In case the title alone does not grab followers of this website, the table of contents (see […]
Falcon on Lakmann, Platonici minores
Andrea Falcon has published at BMCR a handy summary and review of the (relatively) recent monograph of Marie-Luise Lakmann, Platonici minores: 1. Jh.v.Chr. – 2. Jh.n.Chr. Prosopographie. Fragmente und Testimonien […]
New book: Christians and Sethians
Herbert Schmid, author of a study of the Gospel of Philip, is publishing a new monograph on Christianity and Sethian (Gnosticism): Christen und Sethianer: Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion um den religionsgeschichtlichen […]
Call for Panels: International Society for Neoplatonic Studies 2018
Courtesy of John Finamore: I am pleased to announce the call for panels for the 16th annual ISNS conference, to be held in Los Angeles on June […]
Conference – Imagining the Divine
Via Earl Fontainelle – information re: the upcoming conference, Imagining the Divine. Topics to be discussed perhaps relevant to followers of this website may include Manichaeism, Serapis, and magical amulets. […]
New Book: Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity
This new volume of papers looks terrific, and includes a number of studies about Gnosticism as well as ancient wisdom traditions more generally. The volume is a Festschrift for Prof. […]
Spring School at Universität Göttingen
The following announcement is courtesy Earl Fontainelle. What: Spring School in Material Dimensions of Religions When: March 5-9, 2018. Website: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/517150.html Application Deadline: November 24, 2017. From the organizers: Notwithstanding […]
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