New Books in Ancient History

636 Episodes

1. Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt, "Herod in History: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 9/12/2022
2. On Plato's "The Republic"

   Published: 9/12/2022
3. Seth M. Ehorn, "Exodus in the New Testament" (T&T Clark, 2022)

   Published: 9/9/2022
4. On Homer's "The Iliad"

   Published: 8/30/2022
5. Greg Woolf, "The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 8/29/2022
6. Paul Robichaud, "Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return" (Reaktion Books, 2021)

   Published: 8/18/2022
7. James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

   Published: 8/17/2022
8. Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

   Published: 8/17/2022
9. 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
10. On "The Great Learning"

    Published: 8/11/2022
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. Wendy Doniger, "After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 8/2/2022
15. David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

    Published: 7/28/2022
16. Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context" (de Gruyter, 2021)

    Published: 7/25/2022
17. Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf, "Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink" (U Alabama Press, 2018)

    Published: 7/14/2022
18. Travis W. Proctor, "Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 7/12/2022
19. Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel: From Destruction to Restoration" (Maggid, 2020)

    Published: 7/12/2022
20. Vered Noam, "Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature" (Oxford UP, 2018)

    Published: 7/6/2022