new book: Alexandria. Hub of the Hellenistic World
A large collection of what appear to be lovely papers on ancient Alexandria, and its relationship to ancient Judaism and Christianity, has now been published. For more, see the book’s […]
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new book: A Prophet Has Arrived
Ad for an important new sourcebook via AGADE: A Prophet Has Appeared. The Rise of Islam through Christian and JewishEyes, A Sourcebookby Stephen J. Shoemaker (Author)March 2021Hardcover, 320$90.00, £74.00Paperback$34.95, £29.00Pages: […]
A new commentary on Philo’s On the Contemplative Life
Brill’s Philo series marches on with a new trans and comm on one of the Alexandrian’s greatest (and most esoteric) works, wherein he describes a group of Jewish-Platonist sages doing […]
The Three Amigos: Solomon, Jesus, and Aristotle
A curious-looking little book is out from De Gruyter, by Yaacov Shavit from Tel Aviv University. It focuses ‘on places and instances where Solomon’s legendary biography intersects with those of […]
New Book: The Antichrist Tradition in Antiquity
A new book by Mateusz Kusio, entitled The Antichrist Tradition in Antiquity: Antimessianism in Second Temple and Early Christian Literature, is out from Mohr Siebeck. At 84 euros, it is […]
New work on Enoch tradition reviewed
John C. Reeves and Annette Yoshiko Reed. Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Volume 1, Sources from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Oxford, 2018. This new book looks very useful; […]
new journal: Metatron
courtesy of Agade: Forthcoming Open Access Journal: Metatron: Revealing Ancient Knowledge An initiative ofBible and Religions of the Ancient Near EastCollective (BRANE), hosted by Renewed Philology at Yale. Metatron is […]
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