Mani at the court of the Persian kings : : studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex / / by Iain Gardner, Jason BeDuhn, Paul Dilley.
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 inter...
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| Superior document: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, Volume 87 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ;
Volume 87. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter / Iain Gardner , Jason BeDuhn and Paul Dilley
- An Introduction to the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex / Iain Gardner
- Mani’s Wisdom at the Court of the Persian Kings: The Genre and Context of the Chester Beatty Kephalaia / Paul Dilley
- Parallels between Coptic and Iranian Kephalaia: Goundesh and the King of Touran / Jason BeDuhn
- The Final Ten Chapters / Iain Gardner
- Also Schrieb Zarathustra? Mani As Interpreter of the ‘Law of Zarades’ / Paul Dilley
- Iranian Epic in the Chester Beatty Kephalaia / Jason BeDuhn
- Mani’s Last Days / Iain Gardner
- ‘Hell Exists, and We Have Seen the Place Where It Is’: Rapture and Religious Competition in Sasanian Iran / Paul Dilley
- Mani and the Crystallization of the Concept of ‘Religion’ in Third Century Iran / Jason BeDuhn
- Works Cited / Iain Gardner , Jason BeDuhn and Paul Dilley
- Index / Iain Gardner , Jason BeDuhn and Paul Dilley.