New book: The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices
Mohr Siebeck has posted its official website for the forthcoming The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices, by Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott of Oslo University. Having been exposed […]
Late Antiquity and the New Humanities: An Open Forum
Starting last week, Marginalia has been publishing a lovely series of essays on the study of Late Antiquity; now the series is complete, and accessible in toto with an introduction […]
new books: Orphic Hymns, Esoteric Writing, and the Esoteric Bible
A number of new book reviews have become available of recent titles which may be of interest to followers of this site. Each review is astute, and each title worthy […]
Demon Things Conference
Demon Things Conference: Ancient Egyptian Manifestations of Liminal Entities When: March 21-24, 2016 Where: Swansea University and The Egypt Centre, Wales, UK Conference Website From the organizers: This international conference […]
two doctoral research positions in Coptic lexicography available at Free University of Berlin
(scroll down for English version) Wiss. Mitarbeiterin / Wiss. Mitarbeiter (Praedoc) mit 1/2-Teilzeit-Beschäftigung befristet auf 3 Jahre, Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L FU sind im Projekt Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic (DDGLC) […]
New book: Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier
Courtesy of Tony Burke, over at apocryphicity: “The proceedings from the 2013 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium—Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha from North American Perspectives—is now […]
New book: The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity
Guy Stroumsa, who has contributed a great deal to the study of “esotericism” in ancient Christianity and Judaism (as in Hidden Wisdom and Secrecy and Concealment), is publishing what looks […]
AncientEsotericism.org :: Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity 