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 […]
Below you find information (from the book’s official website at Mohr Siebeck, here) regarding the recent publication of a revised dissertation completed at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin on an ancient […]
Two new volumes may be of interest to lovers of ancient esotericism. We have, forthcoming: Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near EastTyson L. PutthoffHardbackISBN: 9781108490542$ 99.99 (C) CUP says: […]
Zeke Mazur’s University of Chicago PhD thesis (2010) argued for a Sethian Gnostic background to much of the ‘participative metaphysics’ found in Plotinus’ discussions of ascent to and union with […]
The end of summer has brought us not one but two new titles dealing with providence, fate, and free will in Roman philosophical and religious literature of the first centuries […]
The reading of ‘Gnosticism’ as fundamentally associated with a rebel spirituality or counterculture has a long history, and is alive and well in some scholarship on ancient Gnosticism. A new […]
I’ve been waiting for this one for a long time – a new reader of Valentinian sources, with Greek and Coptic facing new English translations, by Geoffrey S. Smith of […]
