New Books

Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination by Jennifer Barry UC Press 2025 https://www.ucpress.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover Gender Violence in Late Antiquity confronts the violent ideological frameworks underpinning the early Christian imagination, arguing that gender-based violence is not peripheral but is fundamental to …

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I am delighted to announce the launch of a new Brill series which I have the honour to direct with Anthony Grafton and a stellar editorial board. The series is dedicated to the reception of early Christian literature through the centuries. We inaugurate with a volume by Jean-Louis Quantin: https://brill.com/display/title/69534 The second volume by Alexander …

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Spectral Lives by Luke and Philostratus: Journeying of Holy Men, Robert Lee Williams, Lexington Books, 2023. In the first century CE, the Jewish Jesus, his followers, and the Pythagorean Apollonius journeyed widely, each to spread their good news. Spectral Lives by Luke and Philostratus: Journeying of Holy Men argues that the biographers, Luke and Philostratus felt ethically …

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Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation” by Alex Fogleman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. In this book, Alex Fogleman presents a new history of the rise and development of catechesis in Latin Patristic Christianity by focusing on the critical relationship between teaching and epistemology. Through detailed studies of key figures and catechetical texts, he offers …

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