Pentadic redaction in the Manichaean Kephalaia / by Timothy Pettipiece.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pettipiece, Timothy.

Series:

Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 66.

Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, 0929-2470 ; v. 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kephalaia.

Manichaeism.

Symbolism of numbers.

Five (The number) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discovered in 1929, the Manichaean Kephalaia have opened up an important window on the early development of Manichaean doctrine. This study identifies a significant redactional tendency whereby the compilers of the text sought to clarify ambiguities in “canonical” Manichaean tradition by means of five-part numerical series. This discovery challenges the conventional wisdom of Manichaean scholarship, which has long maintained that, since Mani recorded his own teachings in a series of what later became canonical writings, Manichaean doctrines were transmitted relatively unchanged from the master to successive generations of disciples. Since this assumption is now called into question, it now becomes necessary to re-evaluate received notions about the shape of both the Manichaean “canon” and “tradition.”

Contents:

Preliminary Materials

Introduction

Chapter One. Basic Ontological Patterning

Chapter Two. Theological Patterning I: Light-Realm

Chapter Three. Theological Patterning II: Dark-Realm

Chapter Four. Other Types Of Patterning

Conclusions and Implications

Note On Translations

Chapter 2. The Second, On The Parable Of The Tree

Chapter 3. The Interpretation Of Happiness, Wisdom, And Power; What They Mean

Chapter 4. On The Four Great Days, Which Have Come From One Another; Along With The Four Nights

Chapter 6. On The Five Storehouses Which Have Poured Forth From The Land Of Darkness From The Beginning; The Five Archons, The Five Spirits, The Five Bodies, (And) The Five Tastes

Chapter 7. The Seventh, On The Five Fathers

Chapter 9. The Interpretation Of The (Sign Of) Peace, What It Means, The Right Hand, The Kiss, The Adoration

Chapter 10. On The Meaning Of The Fourteen [Great] Aeons About Which Sethel Spoke In [His] Prayer

Chapter 12. On The Meaning Of The Five Words Which Are Proclaimed Mntparapehout In The Cosmos

Chapter 13. On The Five Saviours, Resurrectors Of The Dead, Along With The Five Resurrections

Chapter 14. The Meaning Of The Silence, The Fast, [The Peace], The Day, [And] The Rest; What They Mean

Chapter 15. [On The] . . . Five [Parts(?)]66 . . . World Of . . .

Chapter 16. [On The Five] Greatnesses Which Have [Come] Out Against The Darkness

Chapter 18. [On The Five] Wars [Which The] Sons Of Light Waged With [The Sons] Of Darkness

Chapter 19. On The Five Releases: What They Mean

Chapter 20. The Chapter On The Name Of The Fathers

Chapter 21. On The Father Of Greatness, How He Is Established And Defined

Chapter 24. [On The Times . . .]

Chapter 25. On The Five126 [Fathers: From Which Limbs They Have Come]

Chapter 27. On The Five Forms Which Exist In The Archon{S} Of Darkness

Chapter 33. On The Five Things That He Constructed With The Hard Bodies Of The Archons

Chapter 37. On The Three Zones

Chapter 38. On The Light-Mind, The Apostles, And The Saints

Chapter 39. On The Three Days And The Two Deaths

Chapter 48. On The Conduits(?)

Chapter 57. On The Generation Of Adam

Chapter 65b. (On The Five Qualities Of The Sun)

Chapter 68. On Fire

Chapter 69. On The Twelve Signs Of The Zodiac And The Five Stars

Chapter 70. On The Body, That It Was Made To Resemble The Cosmos

Chapter 91. On The Catechumen, Who Is Saved In A Single Body

Chapter 95. The Apostle Asks His Disciples: What Does Cloud Mean?

Chapter 100. On The Dragon, The One With Fourteen Heads; What Is It And . . .

Chapter 103. On The Five Wonderworks That The Light-Mind Reveals In The Elect

Chapter 104. On Food, That It Is Appointed To Five Products In The Human Body

Chapter 107. On The Kind Of Speech That . . .

Chapter 111. On The Four Qualities That Are Found In The Eye And The Fifth, Which Is Hidden In Them; To Whom They Belong

Chapter 112b. (On The Five Things Revealed By Jesus)

Chapter 137. On The Five Types Of Brotherhood That Are Distinct From One Another

Chapter 146. The Old Man Has Five Foods To Live On; The Newman Has Five Others

Chapter 148. On The Five Books, That They Belong To Five Fat.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Universite Laval, 2006 under title: Counting the cosmos : five-part numeric patterning in the Manichaean Kephalaia.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-236) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-40101-7

9786612401015

90-474-2782-3

OCLC:

570278329

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004174368.i-244 DOI