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About Lydia Bremer-McCollum
Dr. Lydia Bremer-McCollum is interested in alternative, weird, and marginalized Christian practices in ancient and contemporary spacetimes. She is also a specialist in Coptic language and literature in late antiquity with a particular interest in soul travel, dreams, and visionary experiences.
NBN Episodes hosted by Lydia:
October 10, 2025
The Pearlsong
The Pearlsong (Harvard University Press, 2025) offers the reader a beautifully translated story of a young child who goes on a journey to far away pla…
August 19, 2025
Coptic Culture and Community
Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times (American University in Cairo Press 2024) brings together fourteen contributions from global…
May 23, 2025
Papyri Copticae Magicae
Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (de Gruyter, 2023) offers an accessible repository of edited Coptic magical texts…
April 30, 2025
The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture
The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture (Cambridge UP, 2023) argues that the Talmud must be read and understood in the broader context of …