New Books in Ancient History

574 Episodes

1. On the Book of Psalms: Exploring the Prayers of Ancient Israel by Nachum Sarna

   Published: 1/26/2025
2. 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
3. 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
4. Chaya T. Halberstam, "Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 12/2/2024
18. 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
19. Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)

    Published: 11/25/2024
20. 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