Major Interests: Early Christianity, Manichaeism, Nag Hammadi, Heresy and Orthodoxy, Late Antiquity, Gnosticism, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion, Bruce Lincoln, Pseudepigrapha, Byzantine monasticism, Greek Magical Papyri, Patristics, Mandaeism, Zoroastrianism, Early Christian Apocryphal Literature