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 […]
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 […]
New book: Dualism, Demons, and Devils
Dualismus, Dämonologie und diabolische Figuren. Religionshistorische Beobachtungen und theologische Reflexionen. Edited by Jörg Frey and Enno Edzard Popkes, with Stefanie Christine Hertel-Holst. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. Approx. 530 pages. Published […]
The Prometheus Trust – “Living philosophic traditions”
Call for Abstracts: The Prometheus Trust – 13th Annual conference: “Living philosophic traditions” June 29th – July 1st, 2018 – Mancetter, Warwickshire, UK What does it mean to live within […]
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: […]
AncientEsotericism.org :: Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity 