BMCR: Banner on Männlein-Robert, Seelenreise und Katabasis
Reposted from BMCR, a review by NSEA’s own Nicholas Banner on a new volume on heavenly journeys and tours of the underworld: Seelenreise und Katabasis: Einblicke ins Jenseits in antiker […]
Tag Archives: Syriac
new book: Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism
The interface of esotericism with the history of biblical literature, and Christianity and Judaism more widely, is understudied. It’s great to see a new volume focusing on apocryphal and esoteric […]
BMCR: King on Anagnostou-Laoutides and Parry, eds., Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy
Here you find a review by Daniel King at BMCR of a new volume: Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides, and Ken Parry, eds., Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy. Texts and studies in Eastern […]
new book: A Prophet Has Arrived
Ad for an important new sourcebook via AGADE: A Prophet Has Appeared. The Rise of Islam through Christian and JewishEyes, A Sourcebookby Stephen J. Shoemaker (Author)March 2021Hardcover, 320$90.00, £74.00Paperback$34.95, £29.00Pages: […]
Encyclopædia Iranica Online Now Freely Accessible at Brill
The Encyclopædia Iranica is an invaluable resource for anything Iran- or Persia-related. For followers of this site, that includes Manichaeism, Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism, and of course Persian and Syriac literature, […]
job: Syriac Cataloguing at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John’s University (SJU) invites applications for the full-time, benefit-eligible position of Cataloger of Syriac and Christian Arabic Manuscripts. This is a […]
A New French Translation of a ‘Bardesanite’ Syriac Book
Bardaisan of Edessa is not the best known ancient thinker, probably because his works circulated in Syriac, unlike the Greek provenance of most better-known early Christian writing, but he is […]
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