New Books in Ancient History
A podcast by New Books Network
628 Episodes
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Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Published: 6/2/2025 -
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Published: 5/29/2025 -
Krista N. Dalton, "How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Published: 5/28/2025 -
Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)
Published: 5/24/2025 -
Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Published: 5/24/2025 -
Korshi Dosoo and Markéta Preininger, "Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Published: 5/23/2025 -
Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)
Published: 5/17/2025 -
Pāṇḍitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online
Published: 5/15/2025 -
Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)
Published: 5/13/2025 -
Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Published: 5/12/2025 -
Andrew Ollett, "The Mirror of Ornaments (Alaṅkāradappaṇō): A Prakrit Work of Poetics" (UniorPress, 2025)
Published: 5/8/2025 -
Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Published: 5/6/2025 -
Donald S. Prudlo, "Governing Perfection" (St. Augustine's Press, 2024)
Published: 5/3/2025 -
Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)
Published: 5/2/2025 -
Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)
Published: 5/1/2025 -
Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Published: 4/30/2025 -
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Published: 4/29/2025 -
Cam Grey, "Living with Risk in the Late Roman World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Published: 4/28/2025 -
Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
Published: 4/27/2025 -
Shushma Malik, "The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Published: 4/21/2025
Interview with scholars of the Ancient World about their new books