New Books in Ancient History
A podcast by New Books Network
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501 Episodes
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Anthony Sattin, "Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World" (Norton, 2022)
Published: 9/26/2022 -
Richard Salomon, "The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translation" (Wisdom Publications, 2018)
Published: 9/22/2022 -
On Plato's "Apology"
Published: 9/19/2022 -
Sara Ronis, "Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" (U California Press, 2022)
Published: 9/19/2022 -
Material Matters: Reflections on the History of Settlement Development Across Mainland Southeast Asia
Published: 9/15/2022 -
On Plato's "The Republic"
Published: 9/12/2022 -
Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt, "Herod in History: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Published: 9/12/2022 -
Seth M. Ehorn, "Exodus in the New Testament" (T&T Clark, 2022)
Published: 9/9/2022 -
On Homer's "The Iliad"
Published: 8/30/2022 -
Greg Woolf, "The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Published: 8/29/2022 -
Paul Robichaud, "Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Published: 8/18/2022 -
James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Published: 8/17/2022 -
Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Published: 8/17/2022 -
Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Published: 8/13/2022 -
On "The Great Learning"
Published: 8/11/2022 -
Ari D. Kahn, "The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages" (OU Press, 2020)
Published: 8/10/2022 -
Kim Haines-Eitzen, "Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Published: 8/8/2022 -
Jason A. Staples, "The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Published: 8/8/2022 -
Wendy Doniger, "After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Published: 8/2/2022 -
David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Published: 7/28/2022
Interview with scholars of the Ancient World about their new books