Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Magic
Those interested in ancient magic may wish to make their way to London on 17-18 January 2019. The University of London Senate House is hosting a two-day workshop on Cognitive […]
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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 […]
Neoplatonic Demons and Angels
Looking forward to this one, Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, Volume: 20. Neoplatonic Demons and Angels. Edited by Luc Brisson, Seamus O’Neill and Andrei Timotin. Leiden: Brill, […]
Conference: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices
Two archaeological discoveries from the 1940s irrevocably changed the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism: the unearthing of the Gnostic codices found near Nag Hammadi (Upper Egypt) in 1945, and of […]
Gnosis volume 3.1: Hermetism
Courtesy of April DeConick: the newest issue of Gnosis: Journal for Gnostic Studies is guest-curated by Christian Bull, and features a collection of new papers on Hermetism. (It doesn’t get […]
New book: Timotin, La prière dans la tradition platonicienne, de Platon à Proclus
Andrei Timotin’s latest has just been published – a comprehensive treatment of prayer in the Platonic Tradition. His book on demonology in Platonism is the definitive treatment on the subject, […]
Review: Edmonds on Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri
Courtesy of BMCR: Eleni Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 102. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. Pp. […]
