My apologies for the hiatus. But we're back. Here are a couple of items that have been put in print since then. My article on the motivations for Encratite prohibitions in early Christianity was published by Journal of Theological Studies in October. The article along with the whole current issue is currently available here . Here's the abstract: The most prominent accounts of encratism identify it as an early Christian ascetical sect that refrained from sex, and possibly also wine and meat. Scholars usually give protological speculation as the reason for these prohibitions: the prohibition of marriage and sex is linked with speculation on the state of humanity and/or the world from the beginning of creation. This article questions that assumption, and, through a close examination of the evidence of early Christian heresiologists, possible cultural contexts, and certain apocryphal A