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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Conference papers and proceedings Congresses Sources Congrès |
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Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Allan Mirecki; Jason BeDuhn |
ISBN: | 9004116737 9789004116733 |
OCLC Number: | 46576153 |
Description: | 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, 50. |
Responsibility: | edited by Paul Mirecki and Jason BeDuhn. |
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'...provide a strong set of essays on most aspects of where research stands on the Matthean community.'Fred W. Burnett, Religious Studies Review, 2002.

