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Author | : Iain Gardner |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2018-06-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004363408 |
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The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani, a 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.
Author | : Iain Gardner |
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Release | : 2018 |
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Author | : Iain Gardner |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2014-11-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004282629 |
Download Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings the authors explore evidence arising from their project to edit the Chester Beatty Kephalaia codex. This new text presents Mani at the heart of Sasanian Iran in dialogue with its sages and nobles, acting as a cultural mediator between East and West and interpreter of Christian, Iranian, and Indian traditions. Nine chapters study Mani’s appropriation of the ‘law of Zarades’ and of Iranian epic; suggest a new understanding of his last days; and analyse his formative role in the history of late antique religions. These interdisciplinary studies advance research in several fields and will be of interest to scholars of Manichaeism, Sasanian Iran, and the development of religions in Late Antiquity.
Author | : Johannes van Oort |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2020-02-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004417591 |
Download Mani and Augustine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Richard Flower |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2020-08-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0192542664 |
Download Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The topic of religious identity in late antiquity is highly contentious. How did individuals and groups come to ascribe identities based on what would now be known as 'religion', categorizing themselves and others with regard to Judaism, Manichaeism, traditional Greek and Roman practices, and numerous competing conceptions of Christianity? How and why did examples of self-identification become established, activated, or transformed in response to circumstances? To what extent do labels (whether ancient and modern) for religious categories reflect a sense of a unified and enduring social or group identity for those included within them? How does religious identity relate to other forms of ancient identity politics (for example, ethnic discourse concerning 'barbarians')? Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity responds to the recent upsurge of interest in this issue by developing interdisciplinary research between classics, ancient and medieval history, philosophy, religion, patristics, and Byzantine studies, expanding the range of evidence standardly used to explore these questions. In exploring the malleability and potential overlapping of religious identities in late antiquity, as well as their variable expressions in response to different public and private contexts, it challenges some prominent scholarly paradigms. In particular, rhetoric and religious identity are here brought together and simultaneously interrogated to provide mutual illumination: in what way does a better understanding of rhetoric (its rules, forms, practices) enrich our understanding of the expression of late-antique religious identity? How does an understanding of how religious identity was ascribed, constructed, and contested provide us with a new perspective on rhetoric at work in late antiquity?
Author | : Håkon Fiane Teigen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004459774 |
Download The Manichaean Church in Kellis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Manichaean Church in Kellis presents an in-depth study of social organisation within the religious movement known as Manichaeism in Roman Egypt. In particular, it employs papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), a village in the Dakhleh Oasis, to explore the socio-religious world of lay Manichaeans in the fourth century CE. Manichaeism has often been perceived as an elitist, esoteric religion. Challenging this view, Teigen draws on social network theory and cultural sociology, and engages with the study of lived ancient religion, in order to apprehend how laypeople in Kellis appropriated Manichaean identity and practice in their everyday lives. This perspective, he argues, not only provides a better understanding of Manichaeism: it also has wider implications for how we understand late antique ‘religion’ as a social phenomenon
Author | : Mattias Brand |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2022-05-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 900451029X |
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Published in Open Access with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Winner of the Manfred Lautenschläger Award! Religion is never simply there. In Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis, Mattias Brand shows where and when ordinary individuals and families in Egypt practiced a Manichaean way of life. Rather than portraying this ancient religion as a well-structured, totalizing community, the fourth-century papyri sketch a dynamic image of lived religious practice, with all the contradictions, fuzzy boundaries, and limitations of everyday life. Following these microhistorical insights, this book demonstrates how family life, gift-giving, death rituals, communal gatherings, and book writing are connected to our larger academic debates about religious change in late antiquity.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2020-12-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004445463 |
Download Manichaeism and Early Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Manichaeism and Early Christianity discusses where and how Gnostic Manichaeism interfered not only with other forms of Gnosticism, but above all with a number of writings and representatives of mainstream Christianity during the early centuries of our era.
Author | : Iain Gardner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108499074 |
Download The Founder of Manichaeism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new critical look at Mani's life to establish a proper historical foundation for the study of this fascinating thinker.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2022-07-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004517987 |
Download Byzantium to China: Religion, History and Culture on the Silk Roads Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume celebrates the outstanding achievements of Samuel N. C. Lieu and his contribution to Manichaean, Roman, Byzantine, and Silk Road Studies. Readers will find his wide range of scholarly interests reflected in the contributions of his colleagues and former students.