New Books in Ancient History
A podcast by New Books Network
648 Episodes
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Jack M. Sasson, “From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters” (Eisenbrauns, 2015)
Published: 12/29/2016 -
Eva Mroczek, “The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Published: 12/23/2016 -
Dov Weiss, “Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism” (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Published: 12/12/2016 -
Donald Berry, “Glory in Romans and the Unified Purpose of God in Redemptive History” (Pickwick Publications, 2016)
Published: 11/13/2016 -
Neil Kent, “Crimea: A History” (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2016)
Published: 9/2/2016 -
Reza Zarghamee, “Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World” (Mage Pub, 2013)
Published: 7/5/2016 -
Joseph Lam, “Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible: Metaphor, Culture, and the Making of a Religious Concept” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Published: 6/26/2016 -
Stephen L. Field, “The Duke of Zhou Changes: A Study and Annotated Translation of the Zhouyi” (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015)
Published: 5/20/2016 -
David J. Meltzer, “The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of Americas Ice Age Past” (U Chicago Press, 2015)
Published: 4/26/2016 -
David A. Lambert, “How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Published: 3/28/2016 -
Jason Mokhtarian, “Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran” (U of California Press, 2015)
Published: 2/22/2016 -
Aviya Kushner, “The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible” (Spiegel and Grau, 2015)
Published: 2/16/2016 -
Erica Fox Brindley, “Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE-50 CE” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Published: 2/3/2016 -
Brian P. Copenhaver, “Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment” (Cambridge UP, 2015 )
Published: 12/15/2015 -
Carlos Fraenkel, “Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Published: 12/1/2015 -
Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Published: 10/7/2015 -
Michael L. Satlow, “How the Bible Became Holy” (Yale UP, 2014)
Published: 9/17/2015 -
Bruce A. Bradley, et al., “Clovis Technology” (International Monographs in Prehistory, 2010)
Published: 9/12/2015 -
Douglas B. Bamforth et al., “The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska” (U of New Mexico Press, 2015)
Published: 8/25/2015 -
James Turner, “Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Published: 8/10/2015
Interview with scholars of the Ancient World about their new books