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Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East.
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ISBN: 9004097422 900429581X 9789004097421 Year: 1994 Volume: 118 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The study of Manichaeism, the first Gnostic world religion, has made major advances in the last few decades thanks to the continuing discovery and decipherment of genuine Manichaean texts from Egypt and Central Asia. This work brings together a number of major articles by the author published between 1981 and 1992 on the history of the sect in Mesopotamia and the Roman Empire. The studies have all been up-dated in the light of newly published material.

Manichaeism in Central Asia and China
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ISBN: 9004104054 9004439838 9789004104051 Year: 1998 Volume: 45 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston ; Koln : Brill,

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The discovery of genuine Manichaean texts from sites like Turfan and Tun-huang since the beginning of the century has greatly increased our knowledge of the teaching of Manichaeism and of its amazing geographical spread in pre-Islamic times. This volume brings together the contributions by a leading authority on the subject including a long survey article on the history of the discovery of the texts from Central Asia as well as articles focusing on some of these texts and on the incredible history of adaptation and survival of the sect in China proper. The studies include many Chinese texts on Manichaeism made available for the first time in their original scripts and in translation. The volume also contains the first ever working catalogue of all Manichaean texts (in western as well as oriental languages) published up to 1997.

Manichaeism in the later Roman Empire and medieval China
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ISSN: 03409570 ISBN: 3161458206 9783161458200 Year: 1992 Volume: 63 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck

The Emperor Julian : panegyric and polemic. Claudius Mamertinus ; John Chrysostom ; Ephrem the Syrian.
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ISBN: 0853233764 Year: 1989 Volume: 2 Publisher: Liverpool Liverpool university press

The Emperor Julian : panegyric and polemic. Claudius Mamertinus ; John Chrysostom ; Ephrem the Syrian.
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ISBN: 0853233357 Year: 1986 Publisher: Liverpool Liverpool university press


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Some themes in later roman anti-manichean polemics : II
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Year: 1986

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Some themes in later roman anti-manichaean polemics
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Year: 1986

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The religion of light : an introduction to the history of Manichaeism in China
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Year: 1979 Publisher: Hong Kong University of Hong Kong. Centre of Asian studies

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Constantine : history, historiography and legend
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ISBN: 0415107474 9780415107471 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Routledge

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Manichaean texts from the Roman Empire
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ISBN: 0521568226 052156090X 0511210515 9780511210518 9780521560900 9780521568227 0511215886 9780511215889 0511212283 9780511212284 051121409X 9780511214097 9780511616891 0511616899 1280515902 9781280515903 9786610515905 6610515905 1107141958 0511314892 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Founded by Mani (c. AD 216-276), a Syrian visionary of Judaeo-Christian background who lived in Persian Mesopotamia, Manichaeism spread rapidly into the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries AD and became one of the most persecuted heresies under Christian Roman emperors. The religion established missionary cells in Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Rome and has in Augustine of Hippo the most famous of its converts. The study of the religion in the Roman Empire has benefited from discoveries of genuine Manichaean texts from Medinet Madi and from the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt, as well as successful decipherment of the Cologne Mani-Codex which gives an autobiography of the founder in Greek. This 2004 book is a single-volume collection of sources for this religion, and draws from material mostly unknown to English-speaking scholars and students, offers in translation genuine Manichaean texts from Greek, Latin and Coptic.

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