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The light and the darkness : studies in Manichaeism and its world

This volume presents international scholarship from leading researchers in the field of Manichaean studies. It moves 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.
Print Book, English, 2001
Brill, Leiden, 2001
Aufsatzsammlung
222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9789004116733, 9004116737
46576153
Introduction. The light and the darkness : studies in Manichaeism and its world / Paul Mirecki and Jason BeDuhn
The metabolism of salvation : Manichaean concepts of human physiology / Jason BeDuhn
Didymus the Blind's knowledge of Manichaeism / Byard Bennett
Iuxta unum latus terra tenebrarum : the division of primordial space in anti-Manichaean writers' description of the Manichaean cosmogony / Byard Bennett
Prolegomena to a study of women in Manichaeism / J. Kevin Coyle
The reconstruction of Mani's Epistles from three coptic codices (Ismant el-Kharub and Medinet Madi) / Iain Gardner
Reconstructing Manichaean book paintings through the technique of their makers : the case of The work of religion scene on MIK III 4974 recto / Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
The authenticity and doctrine of (Ps.?) Mani's Letter to Menoch / Geoffrey Harrisoin and Jason BeDuhn
Manichaean allusions to ritual and magic : spells for invisibility in the Coptic Kephalaia / Paul Mirecki
On human races, semi-human beings and monsters / Werner Sundermann
A Manichaean liturgical instruction on the act of almsgiving / Werner Sundermann
A Manichaean-Turkic dispute in runic script / Peter Zieme