Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art

Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art
Author: Manfred Heuser
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004440437

This volume consists of two sections, written by the two authors. The first section contains a study by Manfred Heuser on The Manichaean Myth According to Coptic Sources. This is the first systematic presentation of the basic myth as reflected in Coptic material. The second part is a collection of essays on Manichaeism by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. The essays are concerned, inter alia, with Manichaean art and symbolism, including newly found examples of Manichaean art from Central Asia.

Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art

Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art
Author: Manfred Heuser
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1997-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004107168

This volume consists of two sections. The first is a general analysis by Manfred Heuser of "The Manichaean Myth According to Coptic Sources." The second is a collection of essays by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit on various aspects of Manichaeism including Manichaean symbolism and art.

Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art

Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art
Author: Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2005-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 904740596X

This volume is a pioneer study focused on a corpus of 89 fragments of exquisitely illuminated manuscripts that were produced under the patronage of the Turkic-speaking Uygurs in the Turfan region of East Central Asia between the 8th and 11th centuries CE. Through detailed analyses and interpretations aided by precise computer drawings, the author introduces an important group of primary sources for future comparative research in Central Asian art, mediaeval book illumination, and Manichaean studies.

Mani's Pictures

Mani's Pictures
Author: Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2016-04-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004308946

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.

Emerging from Darkness

Emerging from Darkness
Author: Paul Allan Mirecki
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1996-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004107601

This volume contains several presentations of new Manichaean source materials and provocative essays upon them. The studies are authored by an international group of leading scholars in the fields of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern studies, comparative religion, early Christianity, patristics, Turkic studies, and Coptology. Throughout the book the studies present and discuss a variety of source materials representing the vast geographical spread of Manichaeism. This book should prove to be foundational for future research on Manichaeism and late antique religions in general.

Manichaean Texts in Syriac

Manichaean Texts in Syriac
Author: Nils Arne Pedersen
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Gnosticism
ISBN: 9782503550251

This is the first major work devoted entirely to the Aramaic-Syriac roots of Manichaeism containing inter alia editiones principes of hitherto unknown Syriac-Manichaean texts as well as other editions, studies of the palaeography and origin of the earliest specimens of Manichaean script, interpretation of the texts in the context of Enochic Jewish literature and early Syriac literature, an art-historical study of the Mani seal, as well as photo plates of all the manuscripts edited in the volume.

Manichaean Art in Berlin Collections

Manichaean Art in Berlin Collections
Author: Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The world's richest source of Manichaean texts and works of art is the Turfan region in East Central Asia, and the largest collection of such artifacts is found in Berlin. The Berlin Turfan collections resulted from four German expeditions that took place between 1902 and 1914. The commencement of the philological study of the thousands of manuscript fragments from Turfan led to the recognition of the first known, original Manichaean writings. Among these primary sources, Manichaean works of art were found as well. A sample of them, the best preserved items, appeared in two studies by Albert von Le Coq and a few pieces are frequently exhibited internationally and appear in catalogues published by the Berlin Museum of Indian Art. Besides these efforts, Turfan Manichaean art has enjoyed little art historical attention. A Manichaean artistic corpus has never been systematically identified among the Turfan remains. Artifacts belonging to this corpus have not been catalogued or examined by art historians as a whole. This book is a comprehensive, descriptive catalogue of positively identified Manichaean artifacts housed in Berlin. The majority of them belong to the State Museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, housed in the Museum for Indian Art, Berlin. In addition numerous illuminated book fragments are found within a manuscript collection belonging to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and is deposited in the Berlin State Library of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. From the two Turfan collections, 93 item-groups have been selected according to a specific set of criteria. The main entries of this catalogue are organized according to media and are presented as illuminated book fragments, remnants of leather book covers, painted and embroidered textiles and fragments of wall paintings. The largest group, paper fragments, includes 68 pieces and is sub-divided by book-format - codex, scroll and pustake (palm leaf format).

Manichaeism in Central Asia and China

Manichaeism in Central Asia and China
Author: Samuel Lieu
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004439838

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.

In Search of Truth. Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism

In Search of Truth. Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism
Author: J. van (Johannes) Oort
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 769
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004189971

This volume in honour of Prof. Dr. Johannes van Oort offers a rich variety of in-depth studies on Augustine, Manichaeism, and other Gnostic currents, thus reflecting the rich variety of the honorand’s research interests.