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Reader in Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian
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ISBN: 9004671048 Year: 1975 Publisher: Leiden : BRILL,

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Mani's pictures
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ISSN: 09292470 ISBN: 9789004209121 9004209123 9789004308947 9004308946 Year: 2015 Volume: 90 Publisher: Boston Brill

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The 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.


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Mani at the court of the Persian kings : studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia codex
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ISSN: 09292470 ISBN: 9789004234703 9789004282629 9004234705 Year: 2015 Volume: 87 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings explores new evidence from the Chester Beatty Kephalaia, which presents Mani at the heart of Sasanian Iran, in dialogue with sages and nobles, acting as a cultural mediator between East and West.


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The Cologne Mani codex (P. Colon. inv. nr. 4780) : "Concerning the origin of his body"
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ISSN: 01453203 0145322X ISBN: 089130312X 0891303111 9780891303121 Year: 1979 Volume: 15 3 Publisher: Missoula, Mont. : Scholars Press,


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The chapters of the wisdom of my lord Mani
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ISSN: 09292470 ISBN: 9789004363366 900436336X 9789004363403 9004363408 Year: 2018 Volume: 92 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This Coptic papyrus codex, preserved at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, describes Mani?s mission, teachings and debates with sages in the courts of the Sasanian empire during the reign of Shapur I; with an extended account of his last days and death under Bahram I. The text offers an unprecedented new source for the history of religions in Late Antiquity, including interactions of Manichaean, Zoroastrian, Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist traditions in Iran, remarkably transmitted into the Mediterranean world as part of Manichaean missionary literature. This is the first of four fascicles constituting the 'editio princeps', based on enhanced digital and multispectral imaging and extended autoptic study of the manuscript.

Ephraems Polemik gegen Mani und die Manichäer : im Rahmen der zeitgenössischen griechischen Polemik und der des Augustinus
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ISBN: 2801700800 9782801700808 Year: 1978 Volume: 391 55 Publisher: Winksele Imprimerie Orientaliste


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The Kephalaia of the Teacher : the edited Coptic Manichaean texts in translation with commentary.
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ISSN: 09292470 ISBN: 9004102485 9789004322592 9004322590 9789004328914 9004328912 9789004102484 Year: 1995 Volume: 37 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The Kephalaia of the Teacher' is the most detailed account available to modern scholarship of the teachings of Mani, and of the universal religion that he founded as the final successor to Buddha, Zarathushtra and Jesus. This volume provides the first complete English translation of the Coptic text (c. 400 CE), together with introduction, commentaries and indices. Topics include the apostleship of Mani, the practices of the Manichaean community, accounts of the heavenly and demonic beings and worlds, as well as discussions of astrology and religious psychology. In Manichaeism many of the gnostic and dualistic themes of early Christianity achieved the status of a world religion, and the subject is the heir to contemporary interest in heterodoxy and the deconstruction of received histories (see the Nag Hammadi codices).


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Mani and Augustine : collected essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine
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ISSN: 09292470 ISBN: 9789004416956 9004416951 9789004417595 9004417591 Year: 2020 Volume: 97 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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"Mani and Augustine: collected essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine gathers in one volume contributions on Manichaean scholarship made by the internationally renowned scholar Johannes van Oort. The first part of the book focuses on the Babylonian prophet Mani (216-277) who styled himself an 'apostle of Jesus Christ', on Jewish elements in Manichaeism and on 'human semen eucharist', eschatology and imagery of Christ as 'God's Right Hand'. The second part of the book concentrates on the question to what extent the former 'auditor' Augustine became acquainted with Mani's gnostic world religion and his canonical writings, and explores to what extent Manichaeism had a lasting impact on the most influential church father of the West".

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