New Books in Ancient History

648 Episodes

1. James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

   Published: 8/17/2022
2. Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)

   Published: 8/13/2022
3. On "The Great Learning"

   Published: 8/11/2022
4. Ari D. Kahn, "The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages" (OU Press, 2020)

   Published: 8/10/2022
5. Jason A. Staples, "The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

   Published: 8/8/2022
6. Kim Haines-Eitzen, "Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us" (Princeton UP, 2022)

   Published: 8/8/2022
7. Wendy Doniger, "After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2022)

   Published: 8/2/2022
8. David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

   Published: 7/28/2022
9. Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context" (de Gruyter, 2021)

   Published: 7/25/2022
10. Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf, "Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink" (U Alabama Press, 2018)

    Published: 7/14/2022
11. Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel: From Destruction to Restoration" (Maggid, 2020)

    Published: 7/12/2022
12. Travis W. Proctor, "Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 7/12/2022
13. Vered Noam, "Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature" (Oxford UP, 2018)

    Published: 7/6/2022
14. On the Epic of Gilgamesh

    Published: 7/6/2022
15. Peter Hughes, "A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues" (Aurum Press, 2021)

    Published: 7/4/2022
16. On the Roman Catacombs: A Discussion with William Gruen

    Published: 6/28/2022
17. Archie T. Wright, "Satan and the Problem of Evil: From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers" (Fortress Press, 2022)

    Published: 6/28/2022
18. On Byzantium and 'Romanland'

    Published: 6/28/2022
19. Adrienne Mayor, "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities" (Princeton UP, 2022)

    Published: 6/24/2022
20. W. H. Bellinger Jr., "Introducing Old Testament Theology" (Baker Academic, 2021)

    Published: 6/20/2022