Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire

Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire
Author: Iain Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2004-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521568227

This 2004 book is a single-volume collection of sources for Manichaeism, a world religion founded by Mani, the Syrian visionary.

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.

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.

Manichaeism

Manichaeism
Author: Michel Tardieu
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2008
Genre: Manichaeism
ISBN: 0252032780

Good and evil, light and darkness; for the first time in English, a potent survey of Manichaeism

Constructions of Gender in Late Antique Manichaean Cosmological Narrative

Constructions of Gender in Late Antique Manichaean Cosmological Narrative
Author: Susanna Towers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Manichaean cosmology
ISBN: 9782503586663

Manichaeism emerged from Sasanian Persia in the third century CE and flourished in Persia, the Roman Empire, Central Asia and beyond until succumbing to persecution from rival faiths in the eighth to ninth century. Its founder, Mani, claimed to be the final embodiment of a series of prophets sent over time to expound divine wisdom. This monograph explores the constructions of gender embedded in Mani's colourful dualist cosmological narrative, in which a series of gendered divinities are in conflict with the demonic beings of the Kingdom of Darkness. The Jewish and Gnostic roots of Mani's literary constructions of gender are examined in parallel with Sasanian societal expectations. Reconstructions of gender in subsequent Manichaean literature reflect the changing circumstances of the Manichaean community. As the first major study of gender in Manichaean literature, this monograph draws upon established approaches to the study of gender in late antique religious literature, to present a portrait of a historically maligned and persecuted religious community.

Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis

Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis
Author: Mattias Brand
Publisher: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Stu
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2022
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004508224

Makarios's Family: Manichaeans at Home in the Oasis -- Pamour's Connections: Religion beyond a Conflict Model -- Orion's Language: Manichaean Self-Designation in the Kellis Papyri -- Tehat's Gifts: Everyday Community Boundaries -- The Deacon's Practice: Manichaean Gatherings with Prayer and Psalm Singing --

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.

The Manichaean Church in Kellis

The Manichaean Church in Kellis
Author: Håkon Fiane Teigen
Publisher: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Stu
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2021
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004459762

Introduction: Mani's Church and Social Life -- Life in Kellis: Society and Religion in an Oasis Town -- The Pamour Family: Familial and Economic Networks -- Village Networks: The Small World of Fourth-Century Kellis -- Manichaean Cues: Religious Identity in Everyday Life -- Manichaean Networks: The Social Networks of the Laity at Kellis -- Manichaean Books: Textual Practices, Community, and the Literary Texts -- Manichaean Rituals: Elect and Laity at Kellis -- The Manichaean Church: Elect Organisation -- Conclusion: A Church in the World.

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.