The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and Its World (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies): 50

This is the second volume of scholarly studies in Manichaeism which were originally presented before the Manichaean Studies Group of the Society of Biblical Literature from 1997 through 1999. Like its predecessor, Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources (Brill, 1997), this volume presents the latest international scholarship from leading researchers in the growing field of Manichaean studies. Here the researchers move from the continuing foundational work of recovering Manichaean sources to the necessary task of understanding the relationship of Manichaeans to the larger world in which they lived. That relationship took several distinct forms, and the contributions in this book analyze those forms, examining the relationship of Manichaeism with diverse cultural, social and religious traditions. Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Introduction. The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and its World 8 The Metabolism of Salvation: Manichaean Concepts of Human Physiology 12 Didymus the Blind's Knowledge of Manichaeism 45 Iuxta unum latus terra tenebrarum: The Division of Primordial Space in Anti-Manichaean Writers' Description of the Manichaean Cosmogony 75 Prolegomena to a Study of Women in Manichaeism 86 The Reconstruction of Mani's Epistles from Three Coptic Codices (Ismant el-Kharab and Medinet Madi) 100 Reconstructing Manichaean Book Paintings through the Technique of Their Makers: The Case of The Work of Religion Scene on MIK III 4974 recto 112 The Authenticity and Doctrine of (Ps.?) Mani's Letter to Menoch 135 Manichaean Allusions to Ritual and Magic: Spells for Invisibility in the Coptic Kephalaia 180 On Human Races, Semi-Human Beings and Monsters 188 A Manichaean Liturgical Instruction on the Act of Almsgiving 207 A Manichaean-Turkic Dispute in Runic Script 216 Subject index 227 Text index 228 NAG HAMMADI AND MANICHAEAN STUDIES 230 Edited By Paul Mirecki And Jason Beduhn. This Is The Second Volume Of ... Studies In Manichaeism Which Were Originally Presented Before The Manichaean Studies Group Of The Society Of Biblical Literature From 1997 Through 1999 [first Volume Titled: Emerging From Darkness: Studies In The Recovery Of Manichaean Sources (nhms 43; Brill, 1997)]--p. [1].