April D. DeConick

Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies, Rice University

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Esotericism and Mysticism in Antiquity


Society of Biblical Literature Group
formerly known as Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism

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What are we doing now?
We have expanded our mission to broadly explore religious currents of secrecy/secrets (esotericism) and/or their revelation through praxis (mysticism) in the formative period of Judaism and Christianity (ca. 500 BCE-500 CE).

Contributors
Ron Afzal, Philip Alexander, Daphna Arbel, Matthew Baldwin, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Adam Becker, Ra’anan Abusch Boustan, Bogdan Bucur, Elizabeth Clark, Jim Davila, April DeConick, Kindalee Pfremmer DeLong, Celia Deutsch, Nathaniel Deutsch, Jonathan Draper, Rachel Elior, Frances Flannery-Daily, Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Charles Gieschen, Alexander Golitizin, Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Bob Hall, David Halperin, Larry Hurtado, Rebecca Lesses, Andrea Lieber, Mark Kinzer, Jonathan Klawans, Jonathan Knight, Kathryn Muller Lopez, Edmondo Lupieri, James McGrath, Dan Merkur, Philip Munoa, Andrei Orlov, Birger Pearson, Catherine Playoust, Seth Sanders, Jane Schaberg, Alan Segal, Michael Swartz, Jonah Steinberg, Kevin Sullivan, John Turner, Michael Williams, and Elliot Wolfson.











Jesus said, "Be in the middle, but walk to the side." `Abdallah ibn Qutayba, `Uyun 3.21