New Books in Ancient History

648 Episodes

1. Robert D. Miller II, “The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations: An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives” (Eisenbrauns, 2018)

   Published: 6/21/2018
2. Donni Wang, “Before the Market: The Political Economy of Olympianism” (Common Ground, 2018)

   Published: 5/23/2018
3. Erik Jensen, “Barbarians in the Greek and Roman World” (Hackett Publishing, 2018)

   Published: 5/15/2018
4. Barry W. Holtz, “Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud” (Yale UP, 2017)

   Published: 9/26/2017
5. Hanna Tervanotko, “Denying Her Voice: The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016)

   Published: 8/29/2017
6. Sarah Bond, “Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean” (U of Michigan Press, 2016)

   Published: 8/12/2017
7. Joyce Salisbury, “Rome’s Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)

   Published: 8/6/2017
8. Pekka Pitkanen, “A Commentary on Numbers: Narrative, Ritual and Colonialism” (Routledge, 2017)

   Published: 7/26/2017
9. Jennifer T. Roberts, “The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece” (Oxford UP, 2017)

   Published: 7/16/2017
10. Patrick N. Hunt, “Hannibal” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)

    Published: 7/13/2017
11. Rajan Gurukkal, “Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations” (Oxford UP, 2016)

    Published: 6/8/2017
12. Augustine’s “Confessions,” a new translation by Sarah Ruden (Modern Library, 2017)

    Published: 6/1/2017
13. Michael Bryant,” A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present,” (Bloomsbury, 2016)

    Published: 5/18/2017
14. David Bryan and David Pao, eds, “Ascent into Heaven in Luke – Acts” (Fortress Press, 2016)

    Published: 5/2/2017
15. Rebe Taylor, “Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity” (Melbourne UP, 2017)

    Published: 4/30/2017
16. J. C. McKeown, “A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome” (Oxford UP, 2017)

    Published: 4/29/2017
17. Yuval Harari, “Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah” (Wayne State UP, 2017)

    Published: 3/27/2017
18. Michael E. Stewart, “The Soldier’s Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas In the Early Byzantine Empire” (Kismet Press, 2016)

    Published: 3/22/2017
19. Jordan D. Rosenblum, “The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

    Published: 3/9/2017
20. David Rohl, “Exodus: Myth or History? (Thinking Man Media, 2015)

    Published: 2/27/2017