New Books in Ancient History
A podcast by New Books Network
648 Episodes
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Jeremiah Coogan, "Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Published: 18/07/2024 -
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE
Published: 14/07/2024 -
Robert E. Jones, "Priesthood, Cult, and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran: Analyzing a Pre-Hasmonean Jewish Literary Tradition" (Brill, 2023)
Published: 08/07/2024 -
Aaron Sherraden, "Śambūka's Death Toll: A History of Motives and Motifs in an Evolving Rāmāyaṇa Narrative" (Anthem Press, 2023)
Published: 04/07/2024 -
Travis B. Williams et al., "The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture" (Brill, 2023)
Published: 01/07/2024 -
Jihye Lee, "A Jewish Apocalyptic Framework of Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews" (T&T Clark, 2021)
Published: 29/06/2024 -
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: A Lecture by Anthony Grafton
Published: 22/06/2024 -
Malcolm Schofield, "How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Published: 21/06/2024 -
Robert D. Heaton, "The Shepherd of Hermas As Scriptura Non Grata: From Popularity in Early Christianity to Exclusion from the New Testament Canon" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Published: 16/06/2024 -
Matthew Robertson, "Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Published: 13/06/2024 -
Catherine Michael Chin, "Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe" (U California Press, 2024)
Published: 09/06/2024 -
Scott Crawford, "The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 BC-89 AD: The Struggle of China and a Steppe Empire Told Through Its Key Figures (Pen & Sword, 2023)
Published: 06/06/2024 -
Marcus Schmücker, "Visnu-Narayana: Changing Forms and the Becoming of a Deity in Indian Religious Traditions" (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023)
Published: 06/06/2024 -
Joshua Paul Smith, "Luke Was Not a Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts Within Judaism" (Brill, 2024)
Published: 03/06/2024 -
Sarah Nooter, "How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Published: 02/06/2024 -
David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Published: 28/05/2024 -
Jerome’s Tears (with David Bonagura Jr.): Death and Mourning in Christian Late Antiquity
Published: 24/05/2024 -
Arjen F. Bakker, "The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls" (Brill, 2023)
Published: 23/05/2024 -
Wally V. Cirafesi, "John Within Judaism: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Shaping of Jesus-Oriented Jewishness in the Fourth Gospel" (Brill, 2021)
Published: 21/05/2024 -
Christine Abigail L. Tan, "Freedom's Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang's Zhuangzhi" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Published: 21/05/2024
Interview with scholars of the Ancient World about their new books
