Manichaean Literature
Author: Jes Peter Asmussen
Publisher: Academic Resources Corp
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13:
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Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art
Author: Manfred Heuser
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9004440437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume consists of two sections, written by the two authors. The first section contains a study by Manfred Heuser on The Manichaean Myth According to Coptic Sources. This is the first systematic presentation of the basic myth as reflected in Coptic material. The second part is a collection of essays on Manichaeism by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. The essays are concerned, inter alia, with Manichaean art and symbolism, including newly found examples of Manichaean art from Central Asia.
Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire
Author: Iain Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-03
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521568227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2004 book is a single-volume collection of sources for Manichaeism, a world religion founded by Mani, the Syrian visionary.
Manichaeism
Author: Michel Tardieu
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0252032780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGood and evil, light and darkness; for the first time in English, a potent survey of Manichaeism
Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis
Author: Mattias Brand
Publisher: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Stu
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9789004508224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMakarios's Family: Manichaeans at Home in the Oasis -- Pamour's Connections: Religion beyond a Conflict Model -- Orion's Language: Manichaean Self-Designation in the Kellis Papyri -- Tehat's Gifts: Everyday Community Boundaries -- The Deacon's Practice: Manichaean Gatherings with Prayer and Psalm Singing --
Constructions of Gender in Late Antique Manichaean Cosmological Narrative
Author: Susanna Towers
Publisher:
Published: 2019-12-12
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9782503586663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManichaeism emerged from Sasanian Persia in the third century CE and flourished in Persia, the Roman Empire, Central Asia and beyond until succumbing to persecution from rival faiths in the eighth to ninth century. Its founder, Mani, claimed to be the final embodiment of a series of prophets sent over time to expound divine wisdom. This monograph explores the constructions of gender embedded in Mani's colourful dualist cosmological narrative, in which a series of gendered divinities are in conflict with the demonic beings of the Kingdom of Darkness. The Jewish and Gnostic roots of Mani's literary constructions of gender are examined in parallel with Sasanian societal expectations. Reconstructions of gender in subsequent Manichaean literature reflect the changing circumstances of the Manichaean community. As the first major study of gender in Manichaean literature, this monograph draws upon established approaches to the study of gender in late antique religious literature, to present a portrait of a historically maligned and persecuted religious community.
Emerging from Darkness
Author: Paul Mirecki
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9004439722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern interpretation of the Manichaean religious tradition requires a firm foundation in the sober and meticulous reconstruction of highly fragmentary sources. The studies collected in this volume contribute to such a foundation by bringing new primary texts to the public for the first time, extracting new data from previously known sources, and defining and delimiting important but previously neglected sets of material. The studies are authored by an international group of leading scholars in the fields of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern studies, comparative religion, early Christianity, patristics, art history, Turkic studies and Coptology. The textual and art historical materials examined possess distinctive histories, character and significance representing the broad geographical range of Manichaeism from Algeria to China. By elucidating these essential remains of the Manichaean religion, the comprehensive treatments contained in Emerging from Darkness provide a provocative picture of Manichaeism as a diverse and productive tradition in a variety of settings and media. The volume will be foundational for future scholarly studies on the sources presented and for studies in Manichaeism and late antique religions in general.
The Light and the Darkness
Author: Paul Mirecki
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9004439900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the second volume of scholarly studies in Manichaeism which were originally presented before the Manichaean Studies Group of the Society of Biblical Literature from 1997 through 1999. Like its predecessor, Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources (Brill, 1997), this volume presents the latest international scholarship from leading researchers in the growing field of Manichaean studies. Here the researchers move from the continuing foundational work of recovering Manichaean sources to the necessary task of understanding the relationship of Manichaeans to the larger world in which they lived. That relationship took several distinct forms, and the contributions in this book analyze those forms, examining the relationship of Manichaeism with diverse cultural, social and religious traditions.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
Author: Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 1049
ISBN-13: 0199271569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description.
Mani's Pictures
Author: Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-04-18
Total Pages: 555
ISBN-13: 9004308946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe founder of Manichaeism, Mani (216-274/277 CE), not only wrote down his teachings to prevent their adulteration, but also created a set of paintings—the Book of Pictures—to be used in the context of oral instruction. That pictorial handscroll and its later editions became canonical art for Mani's followers for a millennium afterwards. This richly illustrated study systematically explores the artistic culture of religious instruction of the Manichaeans based on textual and artistic evidence. It discusses the doctrinal themes (soteriology, prophetology, theology, and cosmology) depicted in Mani’s canonical pictures. Moreover, it identifies 10th-century fragments of canonical picture books, as well as select didactic images adapted to other, non-canonical art objects (murals, hanging scrolls, mortuary banners, and illuminated liturgical manuscripts) in Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China.
