The Mystery of Mani
There is a terrific exhibition of Manichaean manuscripts and artefacts on display right now at the Chester Beatty in Dublin, Ireland, ‘The Mystery of Mani.’ Its website is gorgeous and […]
Tag Archives: Coptic
new book: The Gospel of Judas
There is no shortage of editions and translations of infamous The Gospel of Judas. (On Judas’s Gospel, see here.) Why another? Because it is a relatively newly-published text, having been […]
ancient esotericism at the 2019 ESSWE in Amsterdam
Korshi Dosoo (Würzburg) has written up a terrific post detailing the papers concerned with antiquity at the 7th meeting of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, which […]
A new critical edition of ‘The Books of Jeu’
With its descriptions of celestial topography, mysterious sigils and diagrams, and a baptism of fire, the so-called ‘Books of Jeu’ in the Bruce Codex (itself a misnomer, as the ‘codex’ […]
Burns on Bibliotheca Chaldaica 5, 6
A review article I have written about two relatively recent (pub. 2016) volumes of papers about oracles, Platonism, and esotericism in antiquity has just been published online, in Aries 19:1 […]
What is Coptic magic?
‘The Coptic Magical Papyri: Vernacular Religion in Late Roman and Early Islamic Egypt is a five-year research project (2018-2023) based at the Chair of Egyptology of the Julius Maximilian University […]
Zellmann-Rohrer on Faraone, The Transformation of Greek Amulets
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Oxford University) has just published a review at BMCR of a Christopher Faraone, The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times. Empire and after (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania […]
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