Manichaean texts from the Roman Empire / edited by Iain Gardner and Samuel N.C. Lieu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gardner, Iain, editor.

Lieu, Samuel N. C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manichaeism--Rome.

Manichaeism.

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Founded by Mani (c. AD 216-276), a Syrian visionary of Judaeo-Christian background who lived in Persian Mesopotamia, Manichaeism spread rapidly into the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries AD and became one of the most persecuted heresies under Christian Roman emperors. The religion established missionary cells in Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Rome and has in Augustine of Hippo the most famous of its converts. The study of the religion in the Roman Empire has benefited from discoveries of genuine Manichaean texts from Medinet Madi and from the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt, as well as successful decipherment of the Cologne Mani-Codex which gives an autobiography of the founder in Greek. This 2004 book is a single-volume collection of sources for this religion, and draws from material mostly unknown to English-speaking scholars and students, offers in translation genuine Manichaean texts from Greek, Latin and Coptic.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The life of Mani

3. Manichaeism in the Roman Empire

4. The scriptures of Mani

5. Teachings

6. Worship and ethic

7. Community texts.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-306) and index.

ISBN:

9781107141957

1107141958

9781280515903

1280515902

9780511214097

051121409X

9780511215889

0511215886

9780511210518

0511210515

9780511314896

0511314892

9780511616891

0511616899

9780511212284

0511212283

OCLC:

173610102