The Medinet Madi Library of Manichaean Codices At 90 : : Papers from the Symposium at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, 18-19 October 2019 / / Jason D. Beduhn, Paul Dilley, and Professor Iain Gardner.

• Superior document: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; Volume 104
• Author: Medinet Madi Library of Manichaean Codices at 90 (Conference) Chester Beatty Library)
• VerfasserIn: BeDuhn, Jason,; Dilley, Paul,; Gardner, Iain,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dilley, Paul,; Gardner, Iain,; Chester Beatty Library,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English; Arabic
• Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; Volume 104.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This volume presents the Medinet Madi Library as one of the major collections of religious manuscripts from late antiquity, providing status reports from current editorial projects on individual codices and a set of studies on the Manichaean religion informed by these texts.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Reports on Editorial Work on the Medinet Madi Library -- Chapter 1 Towards an Edition of the Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex: Another Progress Report -- Chapter 2 Comments on a Possible Second Text in the Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex -- Chapter 3 The Chester Beatty Kephalaia: Report on Work in Progress -- Chapter 4 Report on the Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi: The Epistles (P. Berol. Inv. 15998) -- Chapter 5 The Publication of Psalm Book Part 1, Plates 1 to 128 -- Part 2 Manichaean Studies Based in the Medinet Madi Library -- Chapter 6 Cutting Down the Bitter Tree: A Motif with Biblical Roots in the First Part of the Manichaean Psalm Book (IAMS Presidential Address) -- Chapter 7 Devotional and Didactic Pantheons in Manichaeism: Kellis, Medinet Madi, Turfan, Dunhuang -- Chapter 8 (No) Providence among the Manichaeans? Divine Care in the Kephalaia of the Teacher -- Chapter 9 Mani's Ascendancy: Revelatory Events and the Emergence of a New Religious Movement in Antiquity -- Chapter 10 Remarks about Manichaean Christology -- Chapter 11 Tracing Themes from Medinet Madi to China: Changes and Core Teaching in the Development of Manichaeism as a World Religion -- Chapter 12 Choosing the 12 and the 72: A Diatessaronic Theme in the Dublin Volume of the Coptic Manichaean Kephalaia Codices -- Chapter 13 "We Rejoice All of Us as We See Your Bēma" (Psalm Book 229, 24.19): Visualization and the Art of Memory in the Coptic Manichaean Psalms -- Chapter 14 A Robber in Paradise: Luke 23:43 in Manichaean and Anti-Manichaean Exegesis -- Chapter 15 Re-reading Manichaean Cosmogonic Fragments (M1001-1032, 9000) -- Index of Modern Authors and Researchers -- Index of Ancient Names, Texts, and Subjects.