{"id":5152,"date":"2013-01-29T12:50:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T19:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2013-01-29T15:23:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T22:23:50","slug":"resource-website-for-scholars-of-esotericism-in-antiquity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5152","title":{"rendered":"Resource Website for Scholars of Esotericism in Antiquity"},"content":{"rendered":"

News release:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity (NSEA) is happy to announce our new website. <\/a>With continually-updated online resources news, and conference announcements, AncientEsotericism.org is intended to be a one-stop location for scholars and students of the field.<\/p>\n

What is esotericism in antiquity? This is a broad term that governs the use of secrecy, concealment, and revelation to talk about the really important stuff\u2014from the true identity of the creator of the cosmos (Gnosticism) to the keys to the heavenly palaces (Hekhalot literature) to how to talk about the indescribable One (Neoplatonic mysticism), etc. So if the subject involves arcana celestial and subterrestrial, it\u2019s ancient esotericism. Scholars in various disciplines have struggled to describe a spike in \u201csecret revelations\u201d in Hellenistic and Late Antique religion (Hengel) or the trend towards mythology in the \u201cUnderworld of Platonism\u201d (Dillon)\u2014what all this diverse material has in common is an interest in secrecy and revelation for dealing with the divine, and a common reception-history in \u201cesotericism\u201d in the modern era, ranging from Renaissance Platonism to the New Age.<\/p>\n

The website<\/a> is intended provide a guide to the wonderful, but dizzying, online resources available for the study of this vast and difficult body of literature. My goal (in collaboration with Sarah Veale) was to create the website I would have died to see when I was an undergraduate and just starting to get excited about this material, but totally confused about how to go about studying it, what scholarship was already out there, and, most importantly, where to find the most useful primary sources and reference materials on the web. A lot of the resources gathered here will be familiar to you\u2014but perhaps not to your students, or colleagues in an adjoining field, or a friend. So, if someone has come your way who is starting to get into Nag Hammadi, or Iamblichus, or the apocalypses, etc. and asks you for some guidance to what\u2019s out there, please consider making this one of the links you pass on to them. We will do our best to make it worth your while.<\/p>\n

We encourage those interested in these fields to submit calls for papers, workshop notices, conference announcements, and other pertinent news and resources for inclusion on the website. You can submit by email or through our online submissions form. Those wishing to get involved with NSEA are invited to contact us for more information.<\/p>\n

With best wishes to you and yours,
\nDylan M. Burns, University of Copenhagen
\nCoordinator, Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity<\/p>\n

\n

I have looked at the site, and it is large and comprehensive. Congratulations!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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