The Medinet Madi Library of Manichaean Codices at 90: papers from the symposium at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, 18-19 October 2019
"The Medinet Madi Library comes of age in this landmark volume as one of the 20th century's major finds of religious manuscripts. Discovered in Egypt's Fayum region in 1929, these Coptic codices contain a cross-section of the sacred literature of the Manichaean religion. Early work on...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies
volume 104 |
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Manichaeism
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Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung (Berlin, Germany) Congresses
B Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) Congresses B Religious Studies B Conference program 2019 (Dublin) B Manuscripts Collection and preservation B Manuscripts, Manichaean Congresses B Chester Beatty Library Congresses B Ancient Near East and Egypt B Excavations (archaeology) (Egypt) (Narmouthis (Extinct city)) Congresses |
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| Summary: | "The Medinet Madi Library comes of age in this landmark volume as one of the 20th century's major finds of religious manuscripts. Discovered in Egypt's Fayum region in 1929, these Coptic codices contain a cross-section of the sacred literature of the Manichaean religion. Early work on the collection in the 1930s was cut short by the ravages of the second world war. Recent decades have brought multiple new editorial projects, on which this volume offers a comprehensive set of status reports, as well as individual studies on aspects of the Manichaean religion informed by the library's contents"-- Towards an edition of the Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis codex : another progress report / Wolf-Peter Funk -- Comments on a possible second text in the Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis codex / Paul Mirecki -- The Chester Beatty Kephalaia : report on work in progress / Paul Dilley -- Report on the Manichaean codices of Medinet Madi : Epistles (P. Berol. Inv. 15998) / Iain Gardner -- The publication of Psalm book part 1, plates 1 to 127 / Siegfried G. Richter -- Cutting down the bitter tree : a motif with Biblical roots in the first part of the Manichaean Psalm book (IAMS Presidential Address) / Nils Arne Pedersen -- Devotional and didactic pantheons in Manichaeism : Kellis, Medinet Madi, Turfan, Dunhuang / Jason David BeDuhn -- (No) providence among the Manichaeans? Divine care in the Kephalaia of the teacher / Dylan M. Burns -- Mani's ascendancy : revelatory events and the emergence of a new religious movement in antiquity / April D. DeConick -- Remarks about Manichaean Christology / Jean-Daniel Dubois -- Tracing themes from Medinet Madi to China : changes and core teaching in the development of Manichaeism as a world religion / Majella Franzmann -- Choosing the 12 and the 72 : a diatessaronic theme in the Dublin volume of the Coptic Manichaean Kephalaia codices / Zsuzsanna Gulácsi -- "We rejoice all of us as we see your bema" (Psalm book 229, 24.19) : visualization and the art of memory in the Coptic Manichaean Psalms / Eduard Iricinschi -- A robber in paradise : Luke 23:43 in Manichaean and anti-Manichaean exegesis / Flavia Ruani -- Re-reading Manichaean cosmogonic fragments (M1001-1032, 9000) / Mihaela Timus. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004542930 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004542938 |