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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CFPanels: International Society for Neoplatonic Studies 2019 (Ottawa)
Courtesy of Prof. John Finamore, President of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies: I am pleased to announce the call for panels for the 17th annual ISNS […]
New Book: A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity
We live in the age of the handbook. Some of them are pretty useful, as this one promises to be. It’s something of a pity that only ‘Pagan’ and Christian […]
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 […]
God’s Library and Variant Readings
Brent Nongbri’s work will be familiar to many followers of this website, principally his terrific book Before Religion, a wonderful critique of the usage of the category ‘religion’ in the […]
New critical edition of Origen, De principiis
This one somehow slipped under my radar last year, but is too important not to mention. John Behr (of St. Vladmir’s) has published the first volume of a new critical […]
Two positions in Syriac and Arabic Christian digital philology at Venice
One of the positions is a doctoral position, the other a postdoc. They both will involve working for the new ERC-funded project Florilegia Syriaca. The Intercultural Dissemination of Greek Christian […]
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