New Books in Ancient History

645 Episodes

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

   Published: 12/31/2024
2. Markus Vinzent, "Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century" (Routledge, 2023)

   Published: 12/25/2024
3. Blake Leyerle, "Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch" (Penn State UP, 2024)

   Published: 12/23/2024
4. Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 12/23/2024
5. Leyla Ozgur Alhassen, "Qur'ānic Stories: God, Revelation, and the Audience" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

   Published: 12/16/2024
6. Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee, "The Illustrated Cairo Genizah" (Gorgias Press, 2024)

   Published: 12/11/2024
7. A. J. Berkovitz, "A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

   Published: 12/9/2024
8. Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar

   Published: 12/7/2024
9. Ibn al-Muqaffaʿs "Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice"

   Published: 12/2/2024
10. Zsuszanna Szanto, "The Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt: The History of a Diaspora Community in Light of the Papyri (De Gruyter, 2024)

    Published: 11/29/2024
11. Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)

    Published: 11/25/2024
12. Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

    Published: 11/23/2024
13. Matthew Elia, "The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 11/11/2024
14. Naomi S. S. Jacobs, "Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink: A Commentary" (Brill, 2018)

    Published: 11/8/2024
15. Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)

    Published: 11/7/2024
16. Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 10/28/2024
17. Vicente Dobroruka, "Second Temple Pseudepigraphy: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Apocalyptic Texts and Related Jewish Literature" (de Gruyter, 2014)

    Published: 10/25/2024
18. Dominick Hernández, "The Prosperity of the Wicked: A Theological Challenge in the Book of Job and in Ancient Near Eastern Literature" (Gorgias Press, 2022)

    Published: 10/24/2024
19. Bruce Gordon, "The Bible: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2024)

    Published: 10/19/2024
20. William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 10/17/2024