New book: The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus
An up-to-date study of the ancient Hermetica in their Egyptian context with attention to Egyptian, Greek, and Gnostic sources alike – a sort of sequel to Mahé’s Hermès en Haute-Égypte – […]
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Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction
Since the ’90s, the standard English translation of the Corpus Hermeticum has been Copenhaver’s Hermetica. It remains a very useful tool, but one way in which it is inferior to […]
Conference: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices
Two archaeological discoveries from the 1940s irrevocably changed the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism: the unearthing of the Gnostic codices found near Nag Hammadi (Upper Egypt) in 1945, and of […]
New Book: The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt
There are loads of new volumes including papers on the Nag Hammadi texts these days. The study of Gnosticism really has transformed over the last twenty years, in wonderful and […]
New book: From Gnostics to Monastics
A great FS for a truly great scholar. From Gnostics to Monastics: Studies in Coptic and Early Christianity in Honor of Bentley Layton. Edited by S. Emmel, S.J. Davis and […]
Danger! Books!
A new issue (39:2) of the journal Henoch includes a section devoted to “Dangerous Books: Scribal Activity and Religious Boundaries in Late Antiquity and Beyond.” The section is edited by […]
New book: Langage des dieux, langage des démons, langage des hommes dans l’Antiquité
Here is a notice for what looks like a very exciting new volume on “language of the gods, of demons, and of humans in antiquity.” From its website at Brepols: […]
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