H. A. G. Houghton (ed.), Commentaries, Catenae and Biblical Tradition: Papers from the Ninth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, in association with the COMPAUL project, Texts and Studies 13, Gorgias Press, New Jersey 2016.
In 2011, the European Research Council awarded Dr Hugh Houghton a Starting Grant …
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Στις αρχές του τρέχοντος έτους είδε το φως της δημοσιότητας ένα νέο, πολλά υποσχόμενο, ηλεκτρονικό περιοδικό ανοιχτής πρόσβασης. Τα Θέματα Αρχαιολογίας είναι ένα τετραμηνιαίο περιοδικό, που επικεντρώνεται σε θέματα αρχαιολογίας και ιστορίας της τέχνης, ταυτόχρονα όμως καλύπτει ευρύ φάσμα ενδιαφερόντων, από την περίοδο της προϊστορίας έως τους νεώτερους χρόνους. Εξίσου ευρύ είναι και …
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Philip F. Esler (ed.), The Early Christian World, Routledge 2017.
Since its publication in 2000, The Early Christian World has come to be regarded by scholars, students and the general reader as one of the most informative and accessible works in English on the origins, development, character and major figures of …
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Res Militares is the official newsletter of the Society of Ancient Military Historians (SAMH). It appears twice per year and it is edited by the SAMH Secretary.
The latest issue of Res Militares is now availiable:
Res Militares, Volume 17, Issue 1, May 2017
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H.C. Teitler, The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity, Oxford University Press, New York 2017.
Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during his …
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Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, New York 2016.
Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy’s …
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Kyle A. Schenkewitz, Dorotheos of Gaza and the Discourse of Healing in Gazan Monasticism, Peter Lang Publishing, New York 2015.
Serving as a dynamic figure in the monastic school, Dorotheos of Gaza transformed the traditional understanding of healing in the spiritual life. Gazan monastic teachers, Isaiah of Scetis, Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos, utilized …
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Stephen J. Shoemaker, Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion, Yale University Press, New Have & London, 2015.
For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, …
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T. J. Wray, Good Girls, Bad Girls of the New Testament: Their Enduring Lessons, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland 2016.
Good Girls, Bad Girls of the New Testament takes readers on a powerful journey through the vast landscape of Roman-occupied Judea during the first century and the genesis of Christianity. This landscape serves …
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Παναγιώτης Καμπάνης, ΦΥΛΑΞ – Τα φυλακτά της ύστερης αρχαιότητας, εκδ. Γράφημα, Θεσσαλονίκη 2017.
Εθνικοί και χριστιανοί θεωρούσαν τα φυλαχτά ως αντικείμενα προικισμένα με υπερφυσική δύναμη, χάρη στην οποία εξουδετέρωναν όλες τις συμφορές που προκαλούσαν στην ανθρώπινη ζωή οι δαίμονες του κακού. Για να ανακαλύψουμε το βαθύτερο νόημα ενός φυλαχτού χρειάζεται να εισχωρήσουμε στα …
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