The light and the darkness : : studies in Manichaeism and its world / / edited by Paul Mirecki and Jason BeDuhn.

• Superior document: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; 50
• TeilnehmendeR: Mirecki, Paul Allan,; BeDuhn, Jason,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 50.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This is the second volume of scholarly studies in Manichaeism which were originally presented before the Manichaean Studies Group of the Society of Biblical Literature from 1997 through 1999. Like its predecessor, Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources (Brill, 1997), this volume presents the latest international scholarship from leading researchers in the growing field of Manichaean studies. Here the researchers move from the continuing foundational work of recovering Manichaean sources to the necessary task of understanding the relationship of Manichaeans to the larger world in which they lived. That relationship took several distinct forms, and the contributions in this book analyze those forms, examining the relationship of Manichaeism with diverse cultural, social and religious traditions.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction. The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and its World / Paul Mirecki and Jason BeDuhn -- The Metabolism of Salvation: Manichaean Concepts of Human Physiology / Jason BeDuhn -- Didymus the Blind's Knowledge of Manichaeism / Byard Bennett -- Iuxta Unum Latus Terra Tenebrarum: The Division of Primordial Space in Anti-Manichaean Writers' Description of the Manichaean Cosmogony / Byard Bennett -- Prolegomena to a Study of Women in Manichaeism / J. Kevin Coyle -- The Reconstruction of Mani's Epistles from Three Coptic Codices (Ismant el-Kharab and Medinet Madi) / Iain Gardner -- Reconstructing Manichaean Book Paintings through the Technique of Their Makers: The Case of The Work of Religion Scene on MIK III 4974 Recto / Zsuzsanna Gulácsi -- The Authenticity and Doctrine of (PS.?) Mani's Letter to Menoch / Geoffrey Harrison and Jason BeDuhn -- Manichaean Allusions to Ritual and Magic: Spells for Invisibility in the Coptic Kephalaia / Paul Mirecki -- On Human Races, Semi-Human Beings and Monsters / Werner Sundermann -- A Manichaean Liturgical Instruction on the Act of Almsgiving / Werner Sundermann -- A Manichaean-Turkic Dispute in Runic Script / Peter Zieme -- Subject Index / Paul Mirecki and Jason BeDuhn -- Text Index / Paul Mirecki and Jason BeDuhn -- Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies / Paul Mirecki and Jason BeDuhn.