The question of whether the massively important early Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria was one and the same person as the Origen mentioned by the later Platonists as Plotinus’s colleague, […]
Francesco Massa‘s review of a new book on divine powers in late antiquity has just been published at BMCR; you can read the review here. It looks like a terrific […]
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity. Edited by Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle Australia, Danielle A. Layne, Gonzaga University, Dirk Baltzly, University of Tasmania and Monash University, […]
The (First) Apocalypse of James is an early Christian Gnostic apocalypse extant in two different Coptic versions, Nag Hammadi Codex V and the Tchacos Codex. These Coptic works are generally […]
This new volume of papers looks terrific, and includes a number of studies about Gnosticism as well as ancient wisdom traditions more generally. The volume is a Festschrift for Prof. […]
From the series’ website at Brill: Edited by George Boys-Stones and George van Kooten In the post-Enlightenment world, philosophy and religion have come to occupy different, even opposed, domains. But […]
This year has seen a flood of publications from Brepols related to Gnosticism, mysticism, and apocrypha in antiquity. Two more I have just caught wind of are the following: Pierluigi […]
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