Lieu, Samuel N. C. (ed.). 2017. Manichaeism east and west (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum. Analecta Manichaica 1). Turnhout: Brepols.
This new volume brings the research on many aspects of the texts published in the Corpus up to date and signals new texts to appear in the Corpus. It includes important studies on the scientific dating of the Medinet Madi, codices as well as the newly discovered Manichaean texts in Chinese and Parthian from Xiapu in South China.
Table of Contents:
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Dilâ Baran Tekin: “Mani and his teachings according to Islamic sources: An introductory study”
- Jason Beduhn and Greg Hodgins: “The date of the Manichaean codices from Medinet Madi, and its significance”
- Adam Benkato: “Incipits and Explicits in Iranian Manichaean texts”
- Fernando Bermejo Rubio: “Violence and Myth: Some reflections on an aspect of the Manichaean Protology and Eschatology”
- Iris Colditz: “On the names of ‘Donors’ in Middle Iranian Manichaean texts”
- Jean-Daniel Dubois: “The Coptic Manichaean Psalm to Jesus (N° 245)”
- Majella Franzmann: “The Elect Cosmic Body and Manichaeism as an exclusive religion”
- Iain Gardner, Leyla Rasouli-Narimani: “Patīg and Pattikios in the Manichaean sources”
- Matthew Goff: “Wild Cannibals or Repentant Sinners? The value of the Manichaean Book of Giants for understanding the Qumran Book of Giants”
- Zsuzsanna Gulácsi: “Exploring the relic function of Mani’s Seal Stone in the Bibliothèque nationale de France”
- Gábor Kósa: “Adamas of Light in the Cosmology Painting”
- Claudia Leurini: “The Messiah in Iranian Manichaean Texts”
- Samuel Lieu: “Manichaeism East and West”
- Rea Matsangou: “Real and Imagined Manichaeans in Greek Patristic anti-Manichaica (4th-6th centuries)”
- Enrico Morano: “Manichaean Sogdian poems”
- Nils Arne Pedersen: “Observations on the Book of the Giants from Coptic and Syriac Sources”
- Flavia Ruani. “John of Dara on Mani: Manichaean Interpretations of Genesis 2:17 in Syriac”
- Jonathan Smith: “Persia, Sun, Fire, Execution, and Mercy: Jean Baudrillard’s postmodern reception of Charles Allberry’s A Manichaean Psalm-Book, Part II (1938)”
- Christos Theodorou: “Heavenly Garment and Christology in Western Manichaean Sources”
- Satoshi Toda: “Some Observations on Greek Words in Coptic Manichaean Texts”
- Yutaka Yoshida: “Middle Iranian Terms in the Xiapu Chinese texts: Four aspects of the Father of Greatness in Parthian”