CfP: a Durham conference on Clement of Alexandria and the Arts
Please see below the call for papers for a thematic session at NAPS 2025, entitled ‘Scripture and the Arts in Clement of Alexandria.’ —– Clement of Alexandria displayed an intense […]
Tag Archives: Gnosticism
CFP Religious Knowledge & Authoritative Texts (CCC Panel, Coimbra)
Religious Knowledge and Authoritative Texts in Judaic, Christian, Gnostic, Neoplatonist and Other Polytheistic Traditions (1st century BCE-2nd century CE) Whether as the starting point of an argument or as a […]
Upcoming Webinar Series on Late Platonism(s)
The first in what looks to be a very interesting series of online talks on aspects of late-antique Platonist and Platonistic cultural phenomena is coming up on 15 December, as […]
book review: Strozynski on Mazur, The Platonizing Sethian background of Plotinus’s mysticism
Re-posted from Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR): Alexander J. Mazur, The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, vol. 98. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. 337. ISBN […]
PhD Scholarship: Groningen, Gnosticism and Philosophy
Scholarship opportunities The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and the Faculty of Arts offer a four-year scholarship to complete a PhD within a joint interdisciplinary project. The proposed PhD […]
A new book on the ‘evil creator’ idea as a Christian innovation
Ancient esotericism-specialists may know M. David Litwa’s work from his Hermetica II volume or elsewhere. In a new OUP offering he addresses the problem of how the idea of an […]
Online Conference on Plotinus and the Gnostics, 14-15 June
This one has many of the big names in this field, including the NSEA’s very own Dr Dylan Burns. This should be an essential conference for those interested in the […]
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