Very pleased to be joining Robert Frakes at Cal State Bakersfield, tomorrow, for a Philosophy & Religious Studies Colloquium on The Innocence of Pontius Pilate.
Author: David Lloyd Dusenbury
David Lloyd Dusenbury is a philosopher, historian of ideas, Times Literary Supplement contributor and senior fellow at Budapest's Danube Institute. The author of I Judge No One and The Innocence of Pontius Pilate (published by Hurst and Oxford University Press), he is also Chair for Jewish-Christian Relations at the University of Antwerp.
Nemesius of Emesa at University of California, Berkeley
Very pleased to be joining Susanna Elm and the Late Antique Religions and Societies Workshop today at UCal Berkeley, to discuss fate, freedom, and law in Nemesius of Emesa (Homs).
Nemesius of Emesa in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Thrilled to see my book on Nemesius written up very generously in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review by the estimable J. J. O'Donnell: "Dusenbury inhabits Nemesius’s text and his world with a scholarly imagination that lets him flesh out a consistent and provocative representation of what Nemesius was getting at and how it made him… Continue reading Nemesius of Emesa in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review
“Melancholy’s Infinity” in Latvian translation
Very pleased to see a translation of my new essay on Emil Cioran, "Melancholy's Infinity", in the Latvian magazine Telos. Points touched on: Hugh of Miramar's On the Misery of Man; Cioran's romanticism; & "a principle of bitterness which only tears can sweeten". Read here.
“Brilliant”: Tom Holland on “I Judge No One”
Good words on my new book from the captivating Tom Holland: "I can’t think of a book that has made the Gospels seem as fresh and strange to me as this one does." See here.
October courtyard —
Múzeum utca 9, Budapest -- 16 October 2022.
Innocence of Pontius Pilate: California State University
Very pleased to be giving a lecture at California State University next month on my 2021 book, The Innocence of Pontius Pilate. -- More to come.
Nemesius of Emesa: University of California, Berkeley
Very pleased to be giving a seminar next month at the University of California, Berkeley, on a Syrian philosopher-bishop of late antiquity, Nemesius of Emesa. More to come --
Oxford to publish “I Judge No One”
I am very pleased to hear that my Hurst book on Jesus (out in London, in December '22) will also be an Oxford University Press book (out in New York, in March '23).
Praise for “I Judge No One”: Andrew Roberts
"Shrewd, well-written & penetrating analyses of some of the greatest mysteries of Mankind ... gleaned from a profound knowledge of the gospels." -- advance praise for I Judge No One from Andrew Roberts FRSL FRHistS, author of Napoleon the Great & many other bestselling biographies
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