, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, ix + 289 pages, Size:210 x 297 mm, Illustrations:4 b/w, 120 col., Language(s):English, French, German. ISBN 9782503604268.
Summary This volume brings together the works of some of the best known and most established scholars in Gnostic and Manichaean studies, Iranologists and art historians. It contains two important and indispensable catalogues of Turfan texts and also studies covering topics such as cosmogony, hymnology and manuscript illumination. A number of Turfan texts in Sogdian and Uygur are published here for the first time. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Editors and contributors Sergio BASSO, Manichaean fragments related to the 'Barlaam and Ioasaph saga' Adam BENKATO, A Fragment of an Iranian Manichaean 'Oral Tradition' Fernando BERMEJO-RUBIO, Mani as a paradigm of the Manichaean Church in the Cologne Mani Codex ?ehnaz BI ER and Bet l ZBAY, The Lotus illustration in a Manichaean manuscript Iris COLDITZ, Strategies for success. Manichaeism under the early Sasanians Desmond DURKIN-MEISTERERNST, An update of Boyce's Catalogue of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian Eduard IRICINSCHI, How Do Wisdom, Law, and Revelation a Religion Make? Appropriation and Displacement in the 'Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani' Samuel N.C. LIEU, A catalogue of the Uygur Manichaean texts Enrico MORANO, Uygur in the Manichaean Sogdian texts in Manichaean script from the Berlin Turfan Collection Nicholas SIMS-WILLIAMS, The ?seven adversities? in a Manichaean Sogdian hymn Michel TARDIEU, La m taphore de l'auberge Peter ZIEME, ?Worte f r die Seele?. Altuigurische manich ische Fragmente with an appendix by Yutaka YOSHIDA
, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xii + 404 pages, Size:210 x 297 mm, Illustrations:15 b/w, 120 col., Language(s):English, French, Italian. ISBN 9782503584072.
Summary The volume contains the proceedings of the ninth international symposium of the International Association of Manichaean Studies (IAMS) held at the University of Turin (11th-15th September, 2017) and covering all major aspects of Manichaean studies. This new volume brings the research on many aspects of Manichaeism up to date and offers also first editions or re-editions with new interpretations of Manichaean texts in the languages used by the Eastern and Western Manichaeans. It includes important studies on Manichaean Art, and on newly discovered Manichaean texts in Chinese and Parthian from Xiapu in South China. TABLE OF CONTENTS Jason BEDUHN ? Manichaean Redaction of Non-Manichaean Narratives, and the Case of Bilawhar and Budasf Fernando BERMEJO-RUBIO ? Syncretism versus Transversality: On the Emergence of Mani's Religious Outlook Iris COLDITZ ? Some Iranian Names of Manichaeans from Non-Iranian Sources. With an Appendix to Iranisches Personennamenbuch 2,1 Federico DRAGONI and Enrico MORANO ? A Sogdian Manuscript in Manichaean Script on Cosmogony and Rules for Elect and Hearers in Manistans Jean-Daniel DUBOIS ? The coming of Jesus ?without a body? (Kephalaion I, 12, 20ff.) Desmond DURKIN-MEISTERERNST ? ?rdhang wifr?s Jorinde EBERT ? A Manichaean Portrait Painter at the Chinese Song Court? Majella FRANZMANN ? Heavenly mothers and virgins and the earthly Eve Zsuzsanna GUL CSI ? Digital Restoration of an Icon of Jesus Preserved on an Uygur Manichaean Mortuary Banner from 10th-century Kocho Xiaodan HU ? The 7 distresses and 5 destinies of the individual soul: A study on Dunhuang Chinese Manichaean text the Scripture on Buddha-Nature ??? in comparison with Turfan and Coptic parallels G bor K SA ? A Survey of Research on the New Textual Materials from China (2013-2017) Samuel N.C. LIEU ? Manichaean Self-Identity revisited (I) Xiao-He MA ? The Painting of the Birth of Mani in Japan and ?The Hymn of the Descent? in the Mani the Buddha of Light manuscript Rea MATSANGOU ? Legal aspects regarding Manichaean assembly places in the later Roman Empire Gunner MIKKELSEN ? Up?ya in the Chinese Manichaean Texts from Dunhuang Evgenia MOISEEVA ? Prolegomena to Mani's vision of the Old Testament Bet l ZBAY ? The Orthography of the Rounded Vowels in Old Uyghur Manichean Texts Bet l ZBAY and ?ehnaz B? ER ? The Headline Ornament: Analysis of the Illuminated Manichaean Manuscript: MIK III 6368 Nils Arne PEDERSEN ? Differing Interpretations of Mani's Apostolate in Manichaean Sources: Subordination or Superiority? Andrea PIRAS ? The Painting of the Living Soul. Metaphors and Practices of Self Restoration Flavia RUANI ? Playing with Literature for Religious Competition: Manichaean Characters in Syriac Hagiography Natale SPINETO, Julien Ries e gli studi sul Manicheismo Michel TARDIEU ? Les m tamorphoses du Troisi me Messager Michel TARDIEU, Danny PRAET and Flavia RUANI ? , Franz Cumont et le d veloppement des tudes manich ennes H kon Fiane TEIGEN ? 'The Church where I am': Elect organisation in the Roman Empire A ron VANSPAUWEN ? Manichaean citations in De fide contra Manichaeos: The circulation of Latin Manichaean texts in North Africa Yutaka YOSHIDA ? B g Qaghan, Zieme, Clark, and Moriyasu: On some aspects of the early phase of the Uighur Manichaeism