The Encyclopædia Iranica is an invaluable resource for anything Iran- or Persia-related. For followers of this site, that includes Manichaeism, Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism, and of course Persian and Syriac literature, […]
BMCR has posted a review by Mark Roblee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) of the recent volume of Eleni Pachoumi and Mark J. Edwards (eds.), Praying and contemplating in late antiquity: […]
Iain Gardner, one of the world’s foremost experts on Manichaeism, has recently published with Cambridge a biography of the prophet of light himself, Mani. Here is the description from the […]
BMCR has posted a lovely review of Brent Nongbri’s fantastic 2018 monograph, God’s Library, copied below. As for me, I couldn’t recommend the book more. For Nongbri’s wonderful blog on […]
Another lion in the study of Gnosticism has left us. Rudolph’s majesterial synthesis Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism, was the first book I ever read on the subject. […]
There is a terrific exhibition of Manichaean manuscripts and artefacts on display right now at the Chester Beatty in Dublin, Ireland, ‘The Mystery of Mani.’ Its website is gorgeous and […]
The latest issue of Religion in the Roman Empire has a nice bevy of articles on the polemical use of terminology about ‘mystery (cults)’ in connexion with heresiography. I copy […]
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