This year has seen a flood of publications from Brepols related to Gnosticism, mysticism, and apocrypha in antiquity. Two more I have just caught wind of are the following: Pierluigi […]
Writing in the first quarter of the fifth century CE, Philostorgius‘ Ecclesiastical History (preserved in a medieval epitome and other references) is an important work in many respects: it is […]
BMCR has just published Heidi Wendt‘s review of Heidi Marx-Wolf, Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority: Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century C.E. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: […]
Brepols has just published a new volume on Shi’ite Esotericism, its relationship to earlier Jewish, Christian, Gnostic, and Manichaean currents, and its various trajectories in Islam. It promises to be […]
I have been waiting with bated breath for some time for the volume honoring the work of Jean-Daniel Dubois, a luminary of scholarship on Gnosticism and Manichaeism, to appear. Brepols […]
Another book produced (this time edited) by DeConick has just been published, by MacMillan Reference USA in their series MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. This one tackles Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism, in […]
I have been looking forward to this book for a long time – April DeConick‘s The Gnostic New Age, which promises to be a very stimulating discussion of Gnosticism in […]
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