This program includes the following projects:

• How old are the oldest Christian Manuscripts? The modern history of ancient Christian papyri and a new approach to establishing their dates
• Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum
• Mission and inculturation: The Manichaean and Nestorian experience in China
• Cosmology in the warring states period
• Desert monasticism in Byzantine Egypt
• Monks in the pharaohs' tombs: Recovering Coptic-era monasticism in the ancient Egyptian landscape of Akhmim
• Manichaean hymns and prayers in Chinese translation: An investigation of the gāthās in the Dunhuang Hymn-scroll
• Papyri from the rise of Christianity in Egypt