Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1. PROLEGOMENA -- Chapter 1. The Confessions and its Academic Readers: A Survey of Secondary Literature -- 1.1. Theological and Historical Perspectives -- 1.2. Literary Perspectives -- Chapter 2. The Confessions and its First Readers: Genre and Audience -- 2.1. The Genre of the Confessions -- 2.2. The Audience of the Confessions -- PART 2. ANALYSES -- Chapter 3. Communicative Purpose and Audience in the Meditation on Psalm 4 (In medias res) -- 3.1. A Meditation Directed at a Manichaean Reader -- 3.2. Identification with a Manichaean Audience -- 3.3. The Use of Manichaean Terminology -- Chapter 4. Protreptic Purpose (Sic invenietur) -- 4.1. Indications of Protreptic Purpose in the Opening Paragraph of the Confessions -- 4.2. Persona and Protreptic Purpose -- 4.3. Allusion to Matthew 7:7 and the Expression of Protreptic Purpose -- 4.4. How Pervasive are the Indications of Protreptic-Paraenetic Intent? -- 4.5. The Protreptic Power of Reading and Listening in the Confessions -- 4.6. The Protreptic-Paraenetic Purpose of the Allegory in Book 13 -- Chapter 5. Audience (Cui narro haec) -- 5.1. Manichaeans, Deception, Friendship, and a History of Failed Communication -- 5.2. The Role of curiositas -- 5.3. How Pervasive is the Expression of Concerns with a Manichaean Audience? -- 5.4. The Manichaean Audience of the Allegory in Book 13 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Translations and Texts of Primary Works -- Reference List of Secondary Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Index Locorum.