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Ravi Gupta and Kenneth Valpey, "The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2013)
50 mins; September 06, 2023
The Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul
82 hours 27 mins; September 04, 2023
Joshua Daniel Schachterle, "John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
96 hours 37 mins; August 30, 2023
Barbara Sattler, "The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
73 hours 18 mins; August 28, 2023
Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)
49 mins; August 27, 2023
Ari Finkelstein, "The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch" (U California Press, 2018)
71 hours 0 mins; August 26, 2023
Debbie Felton, "Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History" (U Texas Press, 2021)
54 mins; August 14, 2023
Michael Baltutis, "The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance" (SUNY Press, 2023)
48 mins; August 03, 2023
Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)
52 mins; August 02, 2023
James Crossley and Robert J. Myles, "Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict" (Zero Books, 2023)
98 hours 37 mins; August 02, 2023
Timothy J. Christian, "Paul and the Rhetoric of Resurrection: 1 Corinthians 15 as Insinuatio" (Brill, 2022)
35 mins; July 31, 2023
Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
84 hours 15 mins; July 29, 2023
Emily Katz Anhalt, "Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny" (Redwood Press, 2021)
50 mins; July 11, 2023
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible" (Princeton UP, 2023)
42 mins; July 08, 2023
Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)
47 mins; July 05, 2023
Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)
74 hours 25 mins; July 03, 2023
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
44 mins; June 29, 2023
David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
35 mins; June 27, 2023
Yaakov Beasley, "Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley" (Maggid, 2020)
51 mins; June 26, 2023
Christoph Heilig, "The Apostle and the Empire: Paul's Implicit and Explicit Criticism of Rome" (Eerdmans, 2022)
97 hours 36 mins; June 25, 2023
Marcus A. Mininger, "Uncovering the Theme of Revelation in Romans 1:16-3:26: Discovering a New Approach to Paul's Argument" (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)
36 mins; June 24, 2023
Joshua D. A. Bloor, "Purifying the Consciousness in Hebrews: Cult, Defilement, and the Perpetual Heavenly Blood of Jesus" (T&T Clark, 2023)
51 mins; June 22, 2023
James Hannam, "The Globe: How the Earth Became Round" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
47 mins; June 22, 2023
Sangraha: Digital Cataloguing of Sanskrit Manuscripts
33 mins; June 21, 2023
Craig L. Blomberg, "Jesus the Purifier: John's Gospel and the Fourth Quest for the Historical Jesus" (Baker Academic, 2023)
74 hours 30 mins; June 05, 2023
Bart D. Ehrman, "Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
37 mins; May 28, 2023
Lee Martin McDonald, "Before There Was a Bible: Authorities in Early Christianity" (T&T Clark, 2023)
75 hours 54 mins; May 26, 2023
Rosamond McKitterick, "Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
46 mins; May 23, 2023
Rila Mukherjee, "India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE" (Springer, 2022)
43 mins; May 21, 2023
Geoffrey S. Smith and Brent C. Landau, "The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Controversial Scholar, a Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, and the Fierce Debate Over Its Authenticity" (Yale UP, 2023)
52 mins; May 13, 2023
Britta K. Ager, "The Scent of Ancient Magic" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
53 mins; May 10, 2023
The International Association of Sanskrit Studies
25 mins; May 10, 2023
The Education of Cyrus: A Conversation with Shilo Brooks
54 mins; May 08, 2023
Plato’s Symposium: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
42 mins; May 05, 2023
Plato's Republic (Books VIII and IX): A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
45 mins; April 28, 2023
The Apology of Socrates: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
56 mins; April 22, 2023
Barak S. Cohen, "For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod" (Brill, 2017)
27 mins; April 21, 2023
Barak S. Cohen, "The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia" (Brill, 2011)
60 hours 32 mins; April 20, 2023
Plato and the Dialogues: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
36 mins; April 18, 2023
Doug Bates on the Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
34 mins; April 17, 2023
Modern Crises, Ancient Wisdom
53 mins; April 14, 2023
Aleksandar Uskokov, "The Philosophy of the Brahma-sutra: An Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
49 mins; April 13, 2023
A Chat with Sanskrit Scholar John Brockington
27 mins; April 10, 2023
Ross Clare, "Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
73 hours 38 mins; April 03, 2023
Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
60 hours 54 mins; March 25, 2023
Claudia Brittenham, "Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2023)
55 mins; March 24, 2023
Sarah Iles Johnston, "Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers" (Princeton UP, 2023)
27 mins; March 15, 2023
Modern Crises, Ancient Wisdom
53 mins; March 15, 2023
Greg Bailey, "The Vinayaka Mahatmya" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
55 mins; March 09, 2023
Sharon Shalom, "From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halakhic and Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews" (Gefen Books, 2016)
53 mins; March 08, 2023
Amanda Podany, "Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East" (Oxford UP, 2022)
68 hours 9 mins; February 25, 2023
Digging for Answers: The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology
66 hours 16 mins; February 23, 2023
Monima Chadha, "Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu's Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 17 mins; February 20, 2023
Jonathan Rivett Robinson, "Markan Typology: Miracle, Scripture and Christology in Mark 4:35–6:45" (T&T Clark, 2022)
24 mins; February 20, 2023
David Arnovitz, "The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Exodus" (Koren, 2020)
38 mins; February 19, 2023
Brian Lander, "The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire" (Yale UP, 2022)
40 mins; February 15, 2023
Mary E. Sommar, "The Slaves of the Churches: A History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
46 mins; February 09, 2023
Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
92 hours 34 mins; February 01, 2023
Arthur Keefer, "Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
43 mins; January 31, 2023
Walking the Via Dolorosa: An Archaeologist Follows Jesus from His Trial to His Crucifixion
44 mins; January 31, 2023
The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East
60 hours 25 mins; January 30, 2023
Padma Kaimal, "Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space" (U Washington Press, 2020)
38 mins; January 26, 2023
Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)
62 hours 53 mins; January 25, 2023
Better Call Paul: How Did the Early Jewish Christians Understand “Works of the Law”?
56 mins; January 19, 2023
Malini Ambach et al., "Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives" (HASP, 2022)
41 mins; January 19, 2023
Simon Brodbeck, "Divine Descent and the Four World-Ages in the Mahābhārata" (Cardiff UP, 2022)
53 mins; January 12, 2023
Patrick Olivelle, "Reading Texts and Narrating History: Collected Essays III" (Primus Books, 2022)
51 mins; January 09, 2023
Hung-Yok Ip, "Grassroots Activism of Ancient China: Mohism and Nonviolence" ( Lexington Books, 2022)
50 mins; January 09, 2023
Joshua Kulp and Jason Rogoff, "Reconstructing the Talmud: An Introduction to the Academic Study of Rabbinic Literature" (Hadar Press, 2014)
61 hours 15 mins; January 08, 2023
Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert
39 mins; January 04, 2023
The 'Queens of the Arabs' during the Neo-Assyrian Period
68 hours 27 mins; January 03, 2023
Josiah Ober, "The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason" (U California Press, 2022)
64 hours 35 mins; January 01, 2023
The Gospels in the Early Church: Evidence for the Chronology and Transmission of the Christian Scriptures
45 mins; December 31, 2022
Zachary Schrag, "The Princeton Guide to Historical Research" (Princeton UP, 2021)
41 mins; December 31, 2022
Nomads in the Bible
25 mins; December 31, 2022
Samsi, Queen of the Arabs
24 mins; December 30, 2022
The Ancient Arabs
21 mins; December 29, 2022
Who Wrote the Bible? Sorting out the History of the Bible We Have.
54 mins; December 27, 2022
Nathanael Vette, "Writing With Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark" (T&T Clark, 2022)
27 mins; December 23, 2022
Fintan Walsh, "The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3, Navan to Kells and N52, Kells Bypass Road Project" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
33 mins; December 13, 2022
Yannis Stouraitis, "Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
50 mins; December 10, 2022
Maria Heim, "Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
37 mins; December 08, 2022
On "Genesis"
37 mins; December 07, 2022
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
50 mins; December 01, 2022
Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff, "The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)
59 mins; November 30, 2022
On "The Mahābhārata"
42 mins; November 23, 2022
Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)
48 mins; November 21, 2022
Samuel J. Levine, "Was Yosef on the Spectrum?: Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash, and Classical Jewish Sources" (Urim Publications, 2018)
60 hours 18 mins; November 18, 2022
Ruth Vanita, "The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
55 mins; November 17, 2022
Ahmad Al-Jallad, "The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions" (Brill, 2022)
60 hours 24 mins; November 17, 2022
James Mallinson and Péter-Dániel Szántó, "The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla: The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga Tradition" (Institut français de Pondichéry, 2021)
37 mins; November 16, 2022
On Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy"
25 mins; November 16, 2022
John Darnell and Colleen Darnell, "Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
54 mins; November 11, 2022
On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War"
29 mins; November 10, 2022
John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022)
54 mins; October 31, 2022
On Augustine's "Confessions"
33 mins; October 31, 2022
On Cicero's "On Friendship"
29 mins; October 28, 2022
Benjamin Parris, "Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care" (Cornell UP, 2022)
65 hours 27 mins; October 28, 2022
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China" (U Washington Press, 2022)
37 mins; October 27, 2022
Robin Waterfield, trans. and ed., "The Complete Works of Epictetus: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
35 mins; October 18, 2022
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