[Rezension von: Pedersen, Nils Arne, 1959-, The Old Testament in Manichaean tradition : the sources in Syriac, Greek, Coptic, middle Perisan, Parthian, Sogdian, new Persian, and Arabic : with an appendix on general references to the Bible]
This book is about a very significant but still insufficiently studied topic. The Old Testament texts were of much greater importance for the formation of Manichaeism than was previously thought. Here, citations and references to the Old Testament are collected, systematized, and identified from the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 907-908 |
| Review of: | The Old Testament in Manichaean tradition (Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2017) (Smagina, Eugenia B.)
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| Summary: | This book is about a very significant but still insufficiently studied topic. The Old Testament texts were of much greater importance for the formation of Manichaeism than was previously thought. Here, citations and references to the Old Testament are collected, systematized, and identified from the extant Manichaean texts in several languages, as well as from descriptions of this doctrine in non-Manichaean sources.The introduction (pp. xi-xlvi) contains a detailed history of the study of the use of biblical texts in the Manichaean tradition, a description and analysis of Manichaean sources in different languages (Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Iranian languages, Arabic). The latter sections of the introduction explore the interpretation of various books and sections of the Old Testament in Eastern and Western Manichaean texts and define the methodology and purpose of the study (to document use of the Old Testament writings in the Manichaean literature and in descriptions of the teaching). The authors make a distinction between biblical quotations (indicated by Q) and allusions (A). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa074 |