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 […]
Tag Archives: Syriac
Scholarships available for MA in Syriac Theology
Scholarships available for MA in Syriac Theology – The University of Salzburg The University of Salzburg invites applications now for its MA in Syriac Theology starting in October 2018. […]
New book: Christians and Sethians
Herbert Schmid, author of a study of the Gospel of Philip, is publishing a new monograph on Christianity and Sethian (Gnosticism): Christen und Sethianer: Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion um den religionsgeschichtlichen […]
Syriac in Salzburg
Courtesy of the yggdrasill mailing list: MA in Syriac Theology – The University of Salzburg The University of Salzburg invites applications now for its MA in Syriac Theology […]
New books: Piovanelli, Apocryphités; Mimouni and Scopello (eds.), La mystique théorétique et théurgique
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 […]
Shi’ite Esotericism, Its Roots and Developments
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 […]
Doctoral and Postdoctoral positions at Göttingen University
A slew of positions at both the doctoral and post-doctoral levels in the study of ancient culture and religion at Georg-August Universität Göttingen have opened up. Interested in Coptic, Syriac, […]
AncientEsotericism.org :: Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity 