New Books in Ancient History

644 Episodes

1. Kara Cooney, "Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches" (American U in Cairo Press, 2024)

   Published: 2/23/2025
2. Malka Z. Simkovich, "Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity" (Eisenbrauns, 2024)

   Published: 2/23/2025
3. Andrew Jotischky, "The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History" (Yale UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/21/2025
4. Shane Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/17/2025
5. Glen L. Thompson, "Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China" (Eerdmans, 2024)

   Published: 2/15/2025
6. Eric Cline, "After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 2/7/2025
7. Vittorio Bufacchi, "Why Cicero Matters" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

   Published: 2/4/2025
8. Sarah E. Bond, "Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire" (Yale UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/4/2025
9. Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/30/2025
10. Joel M. Rothman, "The Cosmic Journey in the Book of Revelation: Apocalyptic Cosmology and the Experience of Story-Space" (T&T Clark, 2023)

    Published: 1/28/2025
11. Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)

    Published: 1/28/2025
12. On the Book of Psalms: Exploring the Prayers of Ancient Israel by Nachum Sarna

    Published: 1/26/2025
13. Petya Andreeva, "Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/25/2025
14. Rafael Rachel Neis, "When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species" (U California Press, 2023)

    Published: 1/20/2025
15. Chaya T. Halberstam, "Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/11/2025
16. Richard H. Davis, "Religions of Early India: A Cultural History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/9/2025
17. Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019)

    Published: 1/8/2025
18. Catherine Hezser, "Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    Published: 1/6/2025
19. Arvind Sharma, "From Fire To Light: Rereading the Manusmriti" (Harper Collins, 2024)

    Published: 1/2/2025
20. Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)

    Published: 12/31/2024