God’s Library and Variant Readings
Brent Nongbri’s work will be familiar to many followers of this website, principally his terrific book Before Religion, a wonderful critique of the usage of the category ‘religion’ in the […]
Tag Archives: early Christianity
Neoplatonic Demons and Angels
Looking forward to this one, Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, Volume: 20. Neoplatonic Demons and Angels. Edited by Luc Brisson, Seamus O’Neill and Andrei Timotin. Leiden: Brill, […]
New critical edition of Origen, De principiis
This one somehow slipped under my radar last year, but is too important not to mention. John Behr (of St. Vladmir’s) has published the first volume of a new critical […]
New Book: The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt
There are loads of new volumes including papers on the Nag Hammadi texts these days. The study of Gnosticism really has transformed over the last twenty years, in wonderful and […]
New book: From Gnostics to Monastics
A great FS for a truly great scholar. From Gnostics to Monastics: Studies in Coptic and Early Christianity in Honor of Bentley Layton. Edited by S. Emmel, S.J. Davis and […]
Two positions in Coptic magic at Würzburg
Two Five-year Positions: Study of Coptic Magic (doctoral and post-doctoral) As part of the new Excellent Ideas programme, the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg is pleased to announce two vacancies within the Department […]
New book: Dualism, Demons, and Devils
Dualismus, Dämonologie und diabolische Figuren. Religionshistorische Beobachtungen und theologische Reflexionen. Edited by Jörg Frey and Enno Edzard Popkes, with Stefanie Christine Hertel-Holst. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. Approx. 530 pages. Published […]
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