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Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)
64 hours 46 mins; March 15, 2025
Radio ReOrient 12.5: ā€œThe Ancient History of the ā€˜Middle East,ā€™ā€ with Marc Van De Mieroop, hosted by Marchella Ward and S.Sayyid
70 hours 53 mins; March 14, 2025
Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
36 mins; March 13, 2025
Daemons, Tantra, and Cultural Exchange with David Gordon White
60 hours 16 mins; March 11, 2025
Alexandra F. Morris, "Disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic World: Platoā€™s Stepchildren" (Routledge, 2024)
38 mins; March 09, 2025
Vera Tiesler, "Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2024)
45 mins; March 05, 2025
Isabel Moreira, "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint" (Oxford UP, 2024)
62 hours 32 mins; March 03, 2025
Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
57 mins; March 02, 2025
Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
51 mins; March 01, 2025
Malka Z. Simkovich, "Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity" (Eisenbrauns, 2024)
47 mins; February 23, 2025
Kara Cooney, "Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches" (American U in Cairo Press, 2024)
53 mins; February 23, 2025
Andrew Jotischky, "The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History" (Yale UP, 2024)
28 mins; February 21, 2025
Shane Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2024)
70 hours 47 mins; February 17, 2025
Glen L. Thompson, "Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China" (Eerdmans, 2024)
64 hours 45 mins; February 15, 2025
Eric Cline, "After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
33 mins; February 07, 2025
Sarah E. Bond, "Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire" (Yale UP, 2024)
76 hours 55 mins; February 04, 2025
Vittorio Bufacchi, "Why Cicero Matters" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
64 hours 45 mins; February 04, 2025
Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
36 mins; January 30, 2025
Joel M. Rothman, "The Cosmic Journey in the Book of Revelation: Apocalyptic Cosmology and the Experience of Story-Space" (T&T Clark, 2023)
20 mins; January 28, 2025
Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
10 mins; January 28, 2025
On the Book of Psalms: Exploring the Prayers of Ancient Israel by Nachum Sarna
34 mins; January 26, 2025
Petya Andreeva, "Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
77 hours 54 mins; January 25, 2025
Rafael Rachel Neis, "When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species" (U California Press, 2023)
92 hours 52 mins; January 20, 2025
Chaya T. Halberstam, "Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 30 mins; January 11, 2025
Richard H. Davis, "Religions of Early India: A Cultural History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
39 mins; January 09, 2025
CaitlĆ­n EilĆ­s Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019)
102 hours 22 mins; January 08, 2025
Catherine Hezser, "Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57 mins; January 06, 2025
Arvind Sharma, "From Fire To Light: Rereading the Manusmriti" (Harper Collins, 2024)
29 mins; January 02, 2025
Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
25 mins; December 31, 2024
Markus Vinzent, "Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century" (Routledge, 2023)
59 mins; December 25, 2024
Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024)
51 mins; December 23, 2024
Blake Leyerle, "Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch" (Penn State UP, 2024)
40 mins; December 23, 2024
Leyla Ozgur Alhassen, "Qur'ānic Stories: God, Revelation, and the Audience" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
49 mins; December 16, 2024
Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee, "The Illustrated Cairo Genizah" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
60 hours 57 mins; December 11, 2024
A. J. Berkovitz, "A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
69 hours 23 mins; December 09, 2024
Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar
49 mins; December 07, 2024
Ibn al-MuqaffaŹæs "KalÄ«lah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice"
73 hours 51 mins; December 02, 2024
Zsuszanna Szanto, "The Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt: The History of a Diaspora Community in Light of the Papyri (De Gruyter, 2024)
44 mins; November 29, 2024
Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)
62 hours 3 mins; November 25, 2024
Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
85 hours 30 mins; November 23, 2024
Matthew Elia, "The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery" (Yale UP, 2024)
76 hours 15 mins; November 11, 2024
Naomi S. S. Jacobs, "Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink: A Commentary" (Brill, 2018)
58 mins; November 08, 2024
Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theaterā€ (Open Book, 2024)
36 mins; November 07, 2024
Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
64 hours 58 mins; October 28, 2024
Vicente Dobroruka, "Second Temple Pseudepigraphy: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Apocalyptic Texts and Related Jewish Literature" (de Gruyter, 2014)
79 hours 28 mins; October 25, 2024
Dominick HernƔndez, "The Prosperity of the Wicked: A Theological Challenge in the Book of Job and in Ancient Near Eastern Literature" (Gorgias Press, 2022)
22 mins; October 24, 2024
Bruce Gordon, "The Bible: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2024)
74 hours 58 mins; October 19, 2024
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
48 mins; October 17, 2024
Simcha Gross, "Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
72 hours 22 mins; October 15, 2024
Helena Taylor, "Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
59 mins; October 12, 2024
The Ideology of Democratic Athens
76 hours 20 mins; October 08, 2024
James A. Anderson, "The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation" (U Washington Press, 2024)
30 mins; September 30, 2024
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 2020)
59 mins; September 30, 2024
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
61 hours 56 mins; September 29, 2024
Rafal K. Stepien, "Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness" (Oxford UP, 2024)
78 hours 20 mins; September 24, 2024
William H. F. Altman, "Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic" (Lexington, 2012)
97 hours 30 mins; September 24, 2024
Philip Freeman, "Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor" (Yale UP, 2023)
39 mins; September 16, 2024
John Schofield, "Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
65 hours 56 mins; September 15, 2024
Theodore Papakostas, "How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator" (William Collins, 2024)
27 mins; September 14, 2024
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; September 09, 2024
Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)
74 hours 0 mins; September 07, 2024
Jeannine Hanger, "Sensing Salvation in the Gospel of John: The Embodied, Sensory Qualities of Participation in the I Am Sayings" (Brill, 2023)
31 mins; September 06, 2024
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2024)
45 mins; September 05, 2024
Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
44 mins; September 04, 2024
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
65 hours 15 mins; September 02, 2024
Laura Salah Nasrallah, "Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
64 hours 28 mins; September 02, 2024
Karl Hoffmann and Johanna Narten, "Vedic Sentences: Edited from the Literary Estate" (Heidelberg Asian Studies, 2024)
59 mins; August 26, 2024
Scott Harrower, "Trauma and Recovery in Early North African Christianity" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2024)
52 mins; August 25, 2024
Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024)
48 mins; August 22, 2024
Diana V. Edelman and Philippe Guillaume, "The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes" (Equinox, 2024)
71 hours 48 mins; August 21, 2024
Laura S. Lieber, "Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 36 mins; August 19, 2024
Mark Sweetnam, "Paul's Last Letter: A Commentary on the Second Epistle to Timothy" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
31 mins; August 14, 2024
Kenneth Atkinson, "A History of the Hasmonean State: Josephus and Beyond" (T&T Clark, 2019)
74 hours 41 mins; August 07, 2024
Eyal Regev, "The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred" (Yale UP, 2019)
34 mins; August 07, 2024
Anna Bonnell Freidin, "Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome" (Princeton UP, 2024)
98 hours 23 mins; August 05, 2024
Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Shepherd of Hermas: A Literary, Historical, and Theological Handbook" (T&T Clark, 2021)
66 hours 34 mins; August 04, 2024
A. J. Berkovitz, "A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
51 mins; August 02, 2024
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of YājƱavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2024)
62 hours 20 mins; July 30, 2024
Robin Darling Young et al, "Evagrius of Pontus: The Gnostic Trilogy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
93 hours 18 mins; July 28, 2024
Daisy Dunn, "The Missing Thread: How Women Shaped the Course of Ancient History" (Viking, 2024)
23 mins; July 26, 2024
Travis B. Williams, "History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Remembering the Teacher of Righteousness" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
78 hours 26 mins; July 24, 2024
Mark Letteney, "The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
73 hours 9 mins; July 22, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 45 mins; July 20, 2024
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
76 hours 20 mins; July 20, 2024
Stephanie Balkwill, "The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century" (U California Press, 2024)
64 hours 54 mins; July 20, 2024
Jeremiah Coogan, "Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
80 hours 22 mins; July 18, 2024
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE
70 hours 58 mins; July 14, 2024
Robert E. Jones, "Priesthood, Cult, and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran: Analyzing a Pre-Hasmonean Jewish Literary Tradition" (Brill, 2023)
52 mins; July 08, 2024
Aaron Sherraden, "ŚambÅ«ka's Death Toll: A History of Motives and Motifs in an Evolving Rāmāyaį¹‡a Narrative" (Anthem Press, 2023)
35 mins; July 04, 2024
Travis B. Williams et al., "The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture" (Brill, 2023)
88 hours 14 mins; July 01, 2024
Jihye Lee, "A Jewish Apocalyptic Framework of Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews" (T&T Clark, 2021)
38 mins; June 29, 2024
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: A Lecture by Anthony Grafton
42 mins; June 22, 2024
Malcolm Schofield, "How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
63 hours 26 mins; June 21, 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)
71 hours 22 mins; June 16, 2024
Matthew Robertson, "Puruį¹£a: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
47 mins; June 13, 2024
Catherine Michael Chin, "Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe" (U California Press, 2024)
73 hours 45 mins; June 09, 2024
Marcus SchmĆ¼cker, "Visnu-Narayana: Changing Forms and the Becoming of a Deity in Indian Religious Traditions" (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023)
31 mins; June 06, 2024
Citizen Soldiers, Republican Virtues, and the Roman Way of War
72 hours 28 mins; June 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)
44 mins; June 06, 2024
Joshua Paul Smith, "Luke Was Not a Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts Within Judaism" (Brill, 2024)
102 hours 48 mins; June 03, 2024
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