Bull’s work represents an accessible yet profound and thoughtful introduction and handbook to the Hermetica, providing both a fair and thorough summary of previous work and a lucid approach to understanding them, and it is likely to become an invaluable reference work and source of further ideas in years to come.I noted the publication of the book here.
The Hermetic tradition is of interest for ancient Judaism in a number of ways. Notably, the Poimandres, the opening tractate in the philosophical Hermetic corpus, was written by someone who had been reading the Greek translation of the Book of Genesis.
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