New book on sacrifice in later antiquity
In a new book Robert J. Daly S.J. examines the concept of sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world, and discusses how the rise of bloodless Christian sacrifice, and the use […]
Tag Archives: theurgy
new book: Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles
I’m excited to see that Nicola Spanu‘s new book on the great Neoplatonist Proclus ‘the Successor’ and theurgy will be published in August 2020, by Routledge. Surely one that will […]
A New Book on Græco-Roman Magic Reviewed
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Drawing down the moon: magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019 The title of Radcliffe Edmond’s new book on magic in antiquity […]
new book: Bibliotheca Chaldaica / Band 7: Hierarchie und Ritual Zur philosophischen Spiritualität in der Spätantike
Fresh off the presses is the newest installment of the Bibliotheca Chaldaica series over at Winter Verlag: Hierarchie und Ritual: Zur philosophischen Spiritualität in der Spätantike. Edited by Chiara Tommasi, […]
Workshop: Neoplatonist Theology
Courtesy of Earl Fontainelle: Advance Notice of a Workshop on Neoplatonist Theology The Castle, Durham. 4 p.m. on 16th to 1 p.m. on 18th May. Papers to include: […]
Wendt on Marx-Wolf, Spiritual Taxonomies
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: […]
Gnose et manichéisme. Festschrift Dubois
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 […]
