The online battle for papyrus texts
The Telegraph recently published this nice, short article on the problematic state of the online trade in ancient papyrus texts, incl. commentary from Brice Jones and Candida Moss. Particular attention […]
Correspondences 2:2 available
The new issue of the open-access online journal for the study of Esotericism, Correspondences, has just been published. It’s got plenty of magic, Gnosticism, and theurgy, particularly in the book […]
Bremmer, Initiation into the Mysteries available via open access
A newly-published review in BMCR of the venerable Jan Bremmer‘s recent book Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World (De Gruyter, 2014) drew to my attention that the book […]
CFP: Digital Coptic 2
Digital Coptic 2 When: March 12-13, 2015 Where: Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Website From the organizers: Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is pleased to host a second workshop and symposium on Digital Humanities […]
New Books: Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism and Restoring the Soul of the World
Two works I have been eagerly awaiting for some time have recently come to light: Crystal Addey’s Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism augurs (forgive me) a thorough and painstaking analysis […]
Christian Apocrypha for popular audiences
One of the foremost North American scholars of the Apocrypha, Tony Burke, blogged a very interesting post yesterday about the panels he served on during his first day at the […]
Yale Multilingualism Conference
Yale Multilingualism Conference When: December 7th-9th 2014 Where: Yale, University, New Haven, Connecticut Website From the organizers: Over the past 20 years there has been a great deal of new […]
