The Medinet Madi Library of Manichaean Codices at 90

Papers from the Symposium at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, 18-19 October 2019
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53982-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 104, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Beduhn, Jason D.

Dilley, Paul

Gardner, Professor Iain

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

Jason BeDuhn, Paul Dilley and Iain Gardner

Part 1: Reports on Editorial Work on the Medinet Madi Library

1 Towards an Edition of the Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex: Another Progress Report

Wolf-Peter Funk†

2 Comments on a Possible Second Text in the Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex

Paul Mirecki

3 The Chester Beatty Kephalaia: Report on Work in Progress

Paul Dilley

4 Report on the Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi: The Epistles (P. Berol. Inv. 15998)

Iain Gardner

5 The Publication of Psalm Book Part 1, Plates 1 to 128

Siegfried G. Richter

Part 2: Manichaean Studies Based in the Medinet Madi Library

6 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

7 Devotional and Didactic Pantheons in Manichaeism: Kellis, Medinet Madi, Turfan, Dunhuang

Jason David BeDuhn

8 (No) Providence among the Manichaeans? Divine Care in the Kephalaia of the Teacher

Dylan M. Burns

9 Mani’s Ascendancy: Revelatory Events and the Emergence of a New Religious Movement in Antiquity

April D. DeConick

10 Remarks about Manichaean Christology

Jean-Daniel Dubois

11 Tracing Themes from Medinet Madi to China: Changes and Core Teaching in the Development of Manichaeism as a World Religion

Majella Franzmann

12 Choosing the 12 and the 72: A Diatessaronic Theme in the Dublin Volume of the Coptic Manichaean Kephalaia Codices

Zsuzsanna Gulácsi

13 “We Rejoice All of Us as We See Your Bema” (Psalm Book

Über Autor(innen)

Jason BeDuhn is Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions at Northern Arizona University and President of the International Association of Manichaean Studies. His major publications include The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual (Johns Hopkins, 2000), Augustine’s Manichaean Dilemma (Pennsylvania, 2010 & 2013), and The First New Testament: Marcion’s Scriptural Canon (Polebridge, 2012).

Paul Dilley is Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions at the University of Iowa, and a Senior Fellow of the Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. In addition to his publications on Manichaeism, he is the author of Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity: Cognition and Discipline (Cambridge, 2017) and co-editor of Linked Open Data for the Ancient World: Structures, Practices, Prospects (ISAW Papers, 2021), among other volumes.

Iain Gardner is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. His recent publications include The Founder of Manichaeism (Cambridge University Press 2020) and Mani’s Epistles (Kohlhammer 2022).