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Through a systematic analysis of the sources, compositional structure, and apologetic and polemical strategies of the early fourth century Acts of Archelaus ("Acta Archelai"), this volume explores inter-religious contact, conflict, and comprehension in the encounter between Christianity and Manichaeism.

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Through a systematic analysis of the sources, compositional structure, and apologetic and polemical strategies of the early fourth century Acts of Archelaus ("Acta Archelai"), this volume explores inter-religious contact, conflict, and comprehension in the encounter between Christianity and Manichaeism.
Autorenporträt
Jason BeDuhn, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 1995) in the Comparative Study of Religions, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), and co-editor, with Paul Mirecki, of Emerging from Darkness: Studies on the Recovery of Manichaean Sources (Brill, 1997), and The Light and the Darkness: Studies on Manichaeism and its World (Brill, 2001). Paul Mirecki, Th.D. (Harvard, 1986) in History of Christian Origins, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the co-author, with Charles W. Hedrick, of The Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel (Polebridge Press, 1999) and co-editor, with Marvin Meyer, of Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (Brill, 1995), and Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World (Brill, 2002).