New Books in Ancient History

629 Episodes

1. Stefanie Lenk, "Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

   Published: 6/9/2025
2. Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 6/2/2025
3. Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

   Published: 5/29/2025
4. Krista N. Dalton, "How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/28/2025
5. Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)

   Published: 5/24/2025
6. Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 5/24/2025
7. Korshi Dosoo and Markéta Preininger, "Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies" (de Gruyter, 2023)

   Published: 5/23/2025
8. Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)

   Published: 5/17/2025
9. Pāṇḍitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online

   Published: 5/15/2025
10. Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)

    Published: 5/13/2025
11. Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/12/2025
12. Andrew Ollett, "The Mirror of Ornaments (Alaṅkāradappaṇō): A Prakrit Work of Poetics" (UniorPress, 2025)

    Published: 5/8/2025
13. Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/6/2025
14. Donald S. Prudlo, "Governing Perfection" (St. Augustine's Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/3/2025
15. Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)

    Published: 5/2/2025
16. Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)

    Published: 5/1/2025
17. Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 4/30/2025
18. Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

    Published: 4/29/2025
19. Cam Grey, "Living with Risk in the Late Roman World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

    Published: 4/28/2025
20. Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2022)

    Published: 4/27/2025