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 […]
Tag Archives: Gnosticism
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 […]
11th Enoch Seminar, Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception
Registration is open for the 11th Enoch Seminar, Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception. When: May 23-27, 2021 Where: Online Chairs: Loren Stuckenbruck, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Gabriele Boccaccini Registration is now […]
The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics
By Paul Linjamaa: one of the latest entries in Brill’s Nag Hammadi and Manichæan Studies series. Here is what they say about the volume: In The Ethics of The Tripartite […]
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