A new critical look at Mani's life to establish a proper historical foundation for the study of this fascinating thinker.

Good and evil, light and darkness; for the first time in English, a potent survey of Manichaeism

This is the first general comprehensive introduction to Manichaeism aimed at a non-specialist and undergraduate readership. This study will be a historical and

Manichaeism emerged from Sasanian Persia in the third century CE and flourished in Persia, the Roman Empire, Central Asia and beyond until succumbing to persecu

Provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in We