Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1991. — 33 S. — ISBN: 3322986357. Der Sermon von der Seele Ein Literaturwerk des östlichen Manichäismus. Diskussionbeiträge.
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020. — 630 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 97). Mani and Augustine: collected essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine gathers in one volume contributions on Manichaean scholarship made by the internationally renowned scholar Johannes van Oort. The first part of the book focuses on the Babylonian prophet Mani (216-277) who styled himself an...
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1973. — 204 p. Sammlung mittelpersischer und parthischer manichäischer Texte zur Kosmologie und Parabel. Vorbemerkungen. Sonderzeichen und technische Bemerkungen. Kosmogonische Texte (1-23). Parabeltexte (24-39). Wörterverzeichnis. Einige Bemerkungen zu Motiven der Parabeltexte von Friedmar Geißler. Verzeichnis der veröffentlichten Texte mit Angabe der...
Brill, 2021. — 365 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 100). The Manichaean Church in Kellis presents an in-depth study of social organization within the religious movement known as Manichaeism in Roman Egypt. In particular, it employs papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), a village in the Dakhleh Oasis, to explore the socio-religious world of lay Manichaeans in the...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011. — 242 S. — (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Neue Folge 17). Der Manichäismus bezeichnet eine Weltreligion, die vom 3. bis zum 12./13. Jh. zeitweise von Europa bis nach China verbreitet war. Vor etwa 100 Jahren wurde in Zentralasien auch die Originalliteratur der Manichäer wiederentdeckt. Wissenschaftler erkannten nun,...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, 2018. — 168 S. — (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Neue Folge 47). This volume examines the gnostic-syncretic religion of Eastern Manicheism in China, Iran, and Turkish central Asia. After a scholarly introduction to the religious theory of Manicheism, the essays probe questions of its transmission and...
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. — 360 p. — ISBN: 9780719010880. In the third century A.D., the Syro-Persian Mani founded a highly evangelistic Gnostic religion in Mesopotamia which was to claim among its converts in the Roman Empire the young Augustine, and which was later to be seen as the inspiration for Paulicians, Bogomils, and Cathars in the Medieval West....
Leiden: Brill, 1998. — xiv + 258 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 45). This volume brings together the contributions by a leading authority on the subject including a long survey article on the history of the discovery of the texts from Central Asia as well as articles focusing on some of these texts and the incredible history of adaptation and survival of the sect in...
Brill, 1999. — xiv, 325 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 118). — ISBN: 978-90-04-29581-0. The study of Manichaeism, the first Gnostic world religion, has made major advances in the last few decades thanks to the continuing discovery and decipherment of genuine Manichaean texts from Egypt and Central Asia. This work brings together several major articles by the author...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1992. — 206 S. — ISBN: 3-447-03227-8. Edition, translation and commentary of the Manichaean text of Šābuhragān. Vorwort. Wichtige Abkürzungen und Sonderseichen. Forschungsgeschichte. Edition. Fragen der Literarischen Überlieferung und Einordnung. Glossar. Literaturverzeichnis. Tafeln I-XX.
Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1975. — 156 p. Mani and his Religion: Texts and Studies. The Missionary Work. Hearers and Elect: The Manichaean Community. Manichaeism as Literary Intermediary. Science and Magic. The Divine Light. Mani’s Death. Manichaean Community Life. Manichaean Hymn-Cycles. Jesus in Manichaeism. The Manichaean Myth.
Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1965. — 292 p. — (Acta Theologica Danica 7). — ISBN: 978-90-04-03804-2. Multiple articles on Manichaeism by Jes Peter Asmussen. Mani and Manichaeism. The Avestan Terms apaitita-, paitita- and paititi- and Their Significance in the Religio-Historical Development of Zoronstrianism. Appendix: Pahlavi patīt ī xuat. Some Remarks on the Christian Confession of...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. — xv, 409 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies; 102). Religion is never simply there. In Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis, Mattias Brand shows where and when ordinary individuals and families in Egypt practiced a Manichaean way of life. Rather than portraying this ancient religion as a well-structured, totalizing...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. — 554 S. — (Iranica 25). — ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-447-10884-3. Werner Sundermanns zentraler Forschungsgegenstand waren die in Berlin aufbewahrten mitteliranischen Textfragmente aus der Turfanoase in Ostturkistan, der heutigen Uigurischen Autonomen Region Xinjiang, China. Seine Texteditionen stellte er stets in einen philologischen, sprach- oder...
Article. — International Journal of Language Academy. — Oulu, Finland, 2017. — p. 348-373. The concept of authority is the one of the most important phenomena of the system of a state, religions and social structure. Authority holder is the ruling and the ruled ones are people who obey the ruling. Obeying the ruling’s authority by the ruled is the fundamental quality of these...
JHU Press, 2000. — 385 p. Reconstructing Manichaeism from scraps of ancient texts and the ungenerous polemic of its enemies (such as the ex-Manichaean Augustine of Hippo), BeDuhn reveals for the first time the religion as it was actually practiced. He describes the Manichaeans' daily ritual meal, their stringent disciplinary codes (intended to prevent humans from harming plants...
Selected Papers from the Seventh International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 8-12 September 2009. — Brill, 2015. — 479 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 88) In 2009 the Seventh International Conference of Manichaean Studies was held at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. The 22 selected papers...
Selected Papers from the First South African Conference on Augustine of Hippo, University of Pretoria, 24-26 April 2012. — Brill, 2013. — 255 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 83) Based on several newly discovered texts, Augustine and Manichaean Christianity provides groundbreaking discussions of the relationship between the most influential church father of the West...
Brill, 2012. — 225 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 80) The Manichaen religion, which was founded by Mani in the 3rd century AD, adapted various elements from mainstream Christianity. For this reason the relationship between the texts of the two religions remains a lively topic of research today. This volume contains the until-now unpublished dissertation and three...
Brill, 2010. — 770 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 74) This book aims at being both a Festschrift and an inspiring collection of studies. Its intention is to present a manifest appreciation of the work of an eminent scholar on the one hand and to stimulate further studies in the fields of research he excelled in on the other hand
Brill, 2010. — 246 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 70). Augustine of Hippo is one of the most influential persons in the history of the Christian Church and even in the development of Western civilisation. If we want to understand him properly, we must examine the influences that shaped his theological and philosophical ideas. One of those influences is...
Brill, 2009. — 371 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 69) This volume reproduces nineteen chapters and articles published between 1991 through 2008, on Manichaeism, and its contacts with Augustine of Hippo, its most famous convert and also best-known adversary. The contents are divided into four parts: perceptions of Mani within the Roman Empire, select aspects of...
Brill, 2009. — 257 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 66) The role played by numbers in religion is largely unexplored territory. This is due, in part, to the fact that such patterns, if they exist, tend to become so embedded into the collective consciousness of the community that rarely is any exegetical effort expended reflecting on their origins or implications. Jews...
Brill, 2009. — 304 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 64) "New Light on Manichaeism" provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion's North African, Iranian, Central...
Brill, 2007. — 190 p. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 61). Taking as their common subject the key early Christian anti-Manichaean work, the "Acts of Archelaus" ("Acta Archelai"), the contributors to this volume offer a systematic exploration of what the text has to tell us about inter-religious contact.
Brill, 2005. - 267 p. (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 57) 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...
Brill, 2001. - 224 p. (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...
Brill, 2001. - 354 p. (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 49) Manichaeism, once a gnostic world religion, soon spread to the Roman West. Here, the life and the work of the future Church Father Augustine (354-430) became inextricably connected with Manichaean teachings and practices. In view of the many new Manichaean texts in particular, it turns out that, without a thorough...
Brill, 1995. - 347 p. (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies - 37) First English translation of the Coptic text (c. 400 CE), with commentaries and indices, to this major source for the teachings of Mani. Manichaeism was the most successful of the gnostic dualistic traditions that challenged the triumph of the imperial Christian Church.