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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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