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New Books in Ancient History
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James Diggle, "Cambridge Greek Lexicon" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
27 mins; October 05, 2021
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture" (U Washington Press, 2021)
33 mins; September 23, 2021
Shawn J. Wilhite, "The Didache" (Cascade Books, 2019)
33 mins; September 21, 2021
Stephen Phillips, "Jewel of Reflection on the Truth about Epistemology: A Complete and Annotated Translation of the Tattva-Cinta-mani" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
69 hours 17 mins; September 20, 2021
Edmund Richardson, "Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
34 mins; September 09, 2021
Antonio Panaino: What is Zoroastrianism?
148 hours 29 mins; August 25, 2021
Armand D'Angour: Reimagining the Classical World
142 hours 59 mins; August 18, 2021
William Varner, "Second Clement: An Introductory Commentary" (Wipf and Stock, 2020)
32 mins; August 17, 2021
David Potter, "Disruption: Why Things Change" (Oxford UP, 2021)
57 mins; August 12, 2021
Mika Ahuvia, "On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
55 mins; August 09, 2021
Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
52 mins; July 29, 2021
McComas Taylor, "The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes" (Australian National UP, 2021)
58 mins; July 29, 2021
David C Mitchell, "Jesus: The Incarnation of the Word" (2021)
21 mins; July 29, 2021
Gayle Rogers, "Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI" (Columbia UP, 2021)
62 hours 57 mins; July 26, 2021
Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific" (Apollo, 2020)
56 mins; July 19, 2021
David Arnovitz, "Samuel: The Making of the Monarchy, Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel" (Koren Publishers, 2021)
18 mins; July 14, 2021
Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community
31 mins; July 14, 2021
Young Richard Kim, "The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
54 mins; July 08, 2021
Shushma Malik, "The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
39 mins; July 06, 2021
Germán Campos Muñoz, "The Classics in South America: Five Case Studies" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
94 hours 53 mins; July 02, 2021
What Do the Ancients Have to Teach Us?: A Discussion with Rob Tempio
34 mins; July 01, 2021
Robert C. Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)
40 mins; June 10, 2021
Tae-Yeoun Keum, "Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought" (Harvard UP, 2020)
53 mins; June 10, 2021
James Fredal, "The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric" (Penn State UP, 2020)
52 mins; May 31, 2021
Brian Carrier, "Earthquakes and Eschatology in the Gospel According to Matthew" (Mohr Siebeck, 2020)
31 mins; May 28, 2021
Mark Storey, "Time and Antiquity in American Empire: Roma Redux" (Oxford UP, 2021)
50 mins; May 27, 2021
Joel Alden Schlosser, "Herodotus in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
52 mins; May 27, 2021
Stephanie Burt, "After Callimachus: Poems" (Princeton UP, 2020)
52 mins; May 17, 2021
Simon Critchley, "Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us" (Vintage, 2020)
54 mins; May 14, 2021
Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
25 mins; May 13, 2021
Andreas J. Köstenberger, "Signs of the Messiah: An Introduction to John’s Gospel" (Lexham Press, 2021)
26 mins; May 13, 2021
John Sellars, "Marcus Aurelius" (Routledge, 2020)
63 hours 19 mins; April 09, 2021
Jason Thompson, "Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology" (AU of Cairo, 2018)
49 mins; March 19, 2021
Laura Eastlake, "Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity" (Oxford UP, 2019)
55 mins; March 09, 2021
Paul Vallely, "Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg" (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2020)
53 mins; March 07, 2021
Richard Kalmin, "Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context" (U California Press, 2014)
46 mins; March 05, 2021
Joshua W. Jipp, "The Messianic Theology of the New Testament" (Eerdmans, 2020)
39 mins; February 17, 2021
Michelle M. Kundmueller, "Homer's Hero: Human Excellence in the Iliad and the Odyssey" (SUNY Press, 2019)
52 mins; February 04, 2021
Sarit Kattan Gribetz, "Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism" (Princeton UP, 2020)
69 hours 9 mins; January 26, 2021
Michael E. Pregill, "The Golden Calf Between Bible and Qur'an: Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam" (Oxford UP, 2020)
60 hours 46 mins; January 22, 2021
Mario Telò, "Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
58 mins; January 22, 2021
Roy E. Gane, "Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch" (Eisenbrauns, 2020)
40 mins; January 11, 2021
Sean Anthony, "Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam" (U California Press, 2020)
66 hours 4 mins; December 31, 2020
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, "Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
70 hours 18 mins; December 28, 2020
Paul Goldin, "The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them" (Princeton UP, 2020)
66 hours 11 mins; December 21, 2020
C. Burnett, "Studying the New Testament Through Inscriptions: An Introduction" (Hendrickson Publishers, 2020)
35 mins; December 21, 2020
Ayon Maharaj, "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
51 mins; December 14, 2020
Virginia Postrel, "The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World" (Basic Books, 2020)
63 hours 13 mins; December 09, 2020
Anthony A. Barrett, "Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty" (Princeton UP, 2020)
54 mins; December 07, 2020
Ithamar Theodor, "The Bhagavad-Gītā: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge, 2020)
54 mins; November 27, 2020
J. S. Sutton and M. L. Mifsud, "A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric" (Lexington Books, 2015)
55 mins; November 24, 2020
Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)
41 mins; November 04, 2020
Coulter George, "How Dead Languages Work" (Oxford UP, 2020)
62 hours 31 mins; October 28, 2020
Bihani Sarkar, "Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Durgā in Ancient Indian Kingship" (Oxford UP, 2017)
66 hours 44 mins; October 16, 2020
Matty Weingast, "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns" (Shambhala, 2020)
49 mins; September 14, 2020
M. R. Jackson Bonner, "The Last Empire of Iran" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
70 hours 50 mins; August 26, 2020
Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation" (Yale UP, 2018)
65 hours 39 mins; July 31, 2020
James Renshaw, "In Search of the Romans" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
70 hours 44 mins; July 27, 2020
Daniel Woolf, "A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
28 mins; July 22, 2020
Johannes Bronkhorst, "A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought" (Columbia UP, 2019)
62 hours 22 mins; July 17, 2020
Ionut Moise, "Salvation in Indian Philosophy: Perfection and Simplicity for Vaiśeṣika" (Routledge, 2019)
48 mins; June 15, 2020
Matthew Duncombe, "Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Skeptics" (Oxford UP, 2020)
62 hours 20 mins; June 10, 2020
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, "Mary, Mother of Martyrs" (FSR, 2018)
56 mins; May 19, 2020
Brian Collins, "The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma" (SUNY Press, 2020)
63 hours 24 mins; May 04, 2020
Peter Adamson, "Classical Indian Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2020)
87 hours 57 mins; April 29, 2020
Michael Daise, "Quotations in John: Studies on Jewish Scripture in the Fourth Gospel" (T and T Clark, 2020)
49 mins; March 24, 2020
Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
56 mins; March 19, 2020
Ayelet Hoffmann Libson, "Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
47 mins; February 12, 2020
Filippo Marsili, "Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to 'Religion' and Empire in Ancient China" (SUNY Press, 2018)
75 hours 32 mins; January 17, 2020
Jonathan Erickson, "Imagination in the Western Psyche: From Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscience" (Routledge, 2019)
89 hours 21 mins; January 15, 2020
Benjamin Balint, "Jerusalem: City of the Book" (Yale UP, 2019)
42 mins; January 15, 2020
Nijay Gupta, "Paul and the Language of Faith" (Eerdmans, 2020)
51 mins; January 13, 2020
Adriel M. Trott, "Aristotle on the Matter of Form: A Feminist Metaphysics of Generation" (Edinburgh UP, 2019)
58 mins; December 20, 2019
Mike Duncan, "The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic" (PublicAffairs, 2017)
83 hours 32 mins; November 19, 2019
Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
68 hours 23 mins; November 12, 2019
Emily Wilson, trans., "The Odyssey" (Norton, 2017)
65 hours 50 mins; November 05, 2019
David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility" (Princeton UP, 2019)
54 mins; October 30, 2019
Andrew Steinmann, "Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary" (IVP Academic, 2019)
40 mins; October 10, 2019
Mark McClish, "The History of the Arthaśāstra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
43 mins; October 09, 2019
Malcolm Keating, "Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
68 hours 48 mins; September 20, 2019
Patrick Schreiner, "Matthew, Disciple and Scribe" (Baker Academic, 2019)
44 mins; September 18, 2019
Elizabeth D. Carney, "Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power" (Oxford UP, 2019)
54 mins; September 12, 2019
Amy Olberding, "The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
53 mins; September 03, 2019
Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris:  Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire" (Pegasus Books, 2018)
44 mins; August 22, 2019
M. David Litwa, "How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths" (Yale UP, 2019)
61 hours 31 mins; August 19, 2019
Lynn Kaye, "Time In The Babylonian Talmud: Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
49 mins; August 08, 2019
Jackson Wu, "Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes: Honor and Shame in Paul's Message and Mission" (IVP Academic, 2019)
48 mins; August 06, 2019
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
65 hours 15 mins; July 31, 2019
Marko Geslani, "Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2018)
59 mins; July 16, 2019
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
62 hours 49 mins; July 10, 2019
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
49 mins; June 10, 2019
Richard Averbeck, "Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research" (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019)
24 mins; June 04, 2019
Demetra Kasimis, "The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
49 mins; June 03, 2019
Barbara K. Gold, "Perpetua: Athlete of God" (Oxford UP, 2018)
53 mins; May 29, 2019
Dirk Jongkind, "An Introduction to the Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge" (Crossway, 2019)
29 mins; May 28, 2019
Adrian Goldsworthy, "Hadrian's Wall" (Basic Books, 2018)
56 mins; May 24, 2019
G. R. Lanier and W. Ross, eds., "Septuaginta: A Reader's Edition" (Hendrickson Publishers, 2018)
38 mins; May 14, 2019
Dirk Jongkind, "The Greek New Testament: Produced at Tyndale House" (Crossway, 2017)
38 mins; May 09, 2019
Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019)
102 hours 22 mins; May 07, 2019
Peter J. Williams, "Can We Trust the Gospels?" (Crossway, 2018)
45 mins; April 30, 2019
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