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New Books in Ancient History
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P. De Vries, "The KābÎd of Yhwh in the Old Testament: With Particular Reference to the Book of Ezekiel" (Brill, 2015)
29 mins; October 17, 2022
Gerald Lalonde, "Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess" (Brill, 2019)
35 mins; October 17, 2022
Mark D. Usher, ed. "How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
45 mins; October 14, 2022
John Behr, "John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology" (Oxford UP, 2021)
33 mins; October 13, 2022
Angela Costley, "Creation and Christ: An Exploration of the Topic of Creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews" (Mohr Siebeck, 2021)
35 mins; October 07, 2022
On Early Christian Deathscapes
60 hours 52 mins; October 05, 2022
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; October 05, 2022
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
61 hours 24 mins; October 04, 2022
Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
40 mins; October 03, 2022
Michael Leese, "Making Money in Ancient Athens" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
50 mins; September 29, 2022
Michael Slouber, "Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras" (Oxford UP, 2016)
61 hours 57 mins; September 29, 2022
Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Epistle of Barnabas: A Commentary" (Cascade Books, 2022)
29 mins; September 26, 2022
Anthony Sattin, "Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World" (Norton, 2022)
53 mins; September 26, 2022
Richard Salomon, "The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translation" (Wisdom Publications, 2018)
55 mins; September 22, 2022
Sara Ronis, "Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" (U California Press, 2022)
60 hours 45 mins; September 19, 2022
On Plato's "Apology"
32 mins; September 19, 2022
Material Matters: Reflections on the History of Settlement Development Across Mainland Southeast Asia
21 mins; September 15, 2022
Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt, "Herod in History: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)
86 hours 39 mins; September 12, 2022
On Plato's "The Republic"
39 mins; September 12, 2022
Seth M. Ehorn, "Exodus in the New Testament" (T&T Clark, 2022)
34 mins; September 09, 2022
On Homer's "The Iliad"
25 mins; August 30, 2022
Greg Woolf, "The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
49 mins; August 29, 2022
Paul Robichaud, "Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
46 mins; August 18, 2022
James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
59 mins; August 17, 2022
Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
58 mins; August 17, 2022
Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
61 hours 45 mins; August 12, 2022
On "The Great Learning"
13 mins; August 11, 2022
Ari D. Kahn, "The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages" (OU Press, 2020)
47 mins; August 10, 2022
Kim Haines-Eitzen, "Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us" (Princeton UP, 2022)
36 mins; August 08, 2022
Jason A. Staples, "The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
30 mins; August 08, 2022
Wendy Doniger, "After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2022)
53 mins; August 02, 2022
David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
60 hours 32 mins; July 28, 2022
Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context" (de Gruyter, 2021)
43 mins; July 25, 2022
Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf, "Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink" (U Alabama Press, 2018)
74 hours 17 mins; July 14, 2022
Travis W. Proctor, "Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; July 12, 2022
Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel: From Destruction to Restoration" (Maggid, 2020)
31 mins; July 12, 2022
Vered Noam, "Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature" (Oxford UP, 2018)
51 mins; July 06, 2022
On the Epic of Gilgamesh
54 mins; July 06, 2022
Peter Hughes, "A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues" (Aurum Press, 2021)
44 mins; July 04, 2022
On the Roman Catacombs: A Discussion with William Gruen
52 mins; June 28, 2022
On Byzantium and 'Romanland'
64 hours 17 mins; June 28, 2022
Archie T. Wright, "Satan and the Problem of Evil: From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers" (Fortress Press, 2022)
44 mins; June 28, 2022
Adrienne Mayor, "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities" (Princeton UP, 2022)
34 mins; June 24, 2022
W. H. Bellinger Jr., "Introducing Old Testament Theology" (Baker Academic, 2021)
25 mins; June 20, 2022
Karen O'Brien-Kop, "Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
37 mins; June 16, 2022
Guy MacLean Rogers, "For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE" (Yale UP, 2022)
64 hours 16 mins; June 08, 2022
Kelly Olson, "Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity" (Routledge, 2020)
45 mins; June 08, 2022
Jason Sion Mokhtarian, "Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies Between Magic and Science" (U California Press, 2022)
51 mins; June 02, 2022
Peter Scharf, "Sabdanugamah: Indian Linguistic Studies in Honor of George Cardona; Volume 1: Vyakarana and Sabdabodha" (Sanskrit Library, 2021)
60 hours 58 mins; May 26, 2022
Nomi Claire Lazar, "Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time" (Yale UP, 2019)
46 mins; May 24, 2022
David Lunt, "The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes" (U Arkansas Press, 2022)
65 hours 16 mins; May 19, 2022
Emma Natalya Stein, "Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
51 mins; May 19, 2022
81* David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
46 mins; May 19, 2022
Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)
76 hours 22 mins; May 16, 2022
Bruce Clark, "Athens: City of Wisdom" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
61 hours 16 mins; May 09, 2022
The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism
28 mins; May 04, 2022
Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2021)
77 hours 2 mins; May 02, 2022
Rachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)
38 mins; April 26, 2022
79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)
46 mins; April 21, 2022
Patrick Olivelle, "Grhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture" (Oxford UP, 2019)
53 mins; April 14, 2022
On Why Socrates Died
48 mins; April 14, 2022
Adrian J. Pearce et al., "Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide. A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration" (UCL Press, 2020)
122 hours 52 mins; April 11, 2022
On Middle Eastern Archaeology and the Historical Jesus
41 mins; April 11, 2022
Paul Stephenson, "New Rome: The Empire in the East" (Harvard UP, 2022)
49 mins; April 06, 2022
Tao Jiang, "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2021)
120 hours 36 mins; March 24, 2022
The Samaritans: A Biblical People
31 mins; March 23, 2022
John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; March 21, 2022
Wendy E. S. North, "What John Knew and What John Wrote: A Study in John and the Synoptics" (Fortress, 2020)
32 mins; March 18, 2022
Carolina LĂłpez-Ruiz, "Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean" (Harvard UP, 2021)
53 mins; March 14, 2022
Friederike Assandri, "The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
63 hours 3 mins; March 14, 2022
Pratik Chakrabarti, "Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
48 mins; March 10, 2022
James McHugh, "An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
34 mins; March 03, 2022
Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, "The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture" (Harvard UP, 2021)
73 hours 44 mins; March 03, 2022
Olivia Milburn, "The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction" (U Washington Press, 2021)
60 hours 32 mins; March 01, 2022
Erica Brown, "Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile" (Maggid, 2020)
44 mins; February 25, 2022
Eviatar Shulman, "Visions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
50 mins; February 23, 2022
Darian R. Lockett, "Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon" (InterVarsity Press, 2021)
74 hours 21 mins; February 23, 2022
Jarrod Whitaker, "Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2011)
44 mins; February 17, 2022
Markus Zehnder, "The Bible and Immigration: A Critical and Empirical Reassessment" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
56 mins; February 17, 2022
Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, "The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural" (Beacon Press, 2022)
35 mins; February 08, 2022
Kimberly Cassibry, "Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire's Souvenirs" (Oxford UP, 2021)
50 mins; February 04, 2022
Emma Southon, "A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome" (Abrams Press, 2021)
66 hours 49 mins; February 02, 2022
Paulette F. C. Steeves, "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
40 mins; January 27, 2022
Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease
22 mins; January 21, 2022
Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)
65 hours 45 mins; January 20, 2022
Judith Herrin, "Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
56 mins; January 14, 2022
Thomas Schmidt, "The Book of Revelation and Its Eastern Commentators: Making the New Testament in the Early Christian World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
66 hours 3 mins; January 03, 2022
Ionut Moise and Ganesh U. Thite, "VaiƛeáčŁikasĆ«tra: A Translation" (Routledge, 2021)
38 mins; December 30, 2021
From Linear A to Linear B: Suggestive Continuity
112 hours 28 mins; December 29, 2021
Beate Kowalski and Susan E. Docherty, "The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature: "Let My People Go!" (Brill, 2021)
36 mins; December 23, 2021
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, “Herculaneum Uncovered” (Open Agenda, 2021)
94 hours 14 mins; November 30, 2021
68 Martin Puchner: Writing and Reading from Gilgamesh to Amazon
41 mins; November 18, 2021
Michele Kennerly, "Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics" (U South Carolina Press, 2018)
56 mins; November 05, 2021
War Stories: The Military Tactics of Ancient Egyptian Rulers As Illustrated by War Records
14 mins; November 03, 2021
Alicia D. Myers and Lindsey S. Jodrey, "Come and Read: Interpretive Approaches to the Gospel of John" (Fortress Academic, 2019)
37 mins; November 01, 2021
Jason Gile, "Ezekiel and the World of Deuteronomy" (T&T Clark, 2021)
30 mins; October 29, 2021
Sam Wineburg, "Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
58 mins; October 21, 2021
Dov Zakheim, "The Prince and the Emperors: The Life and Times of Rabbi Judah the Prince" (Maggid, 2021)
34 mins; October 15, 2021
Josiah Ober, “Democratic Lessons: What the Greeks Can Teach Us” (Open Agenda, 2021)
127 hours 31 mins; October 14, 2021
Yakov Nagen, "The Soul of the Mishna" (Maggid, 2021)
29 mins; October 12, 2021
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