Manichaeism in Central Asia and China

Greek (ancient), Chinese traditional / complex, English

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Book

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xiv, 272 pp.

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BRILL

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Biographical note

Samuel N. C. Lieu is Professor of Ancient History and Co-Director of the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia). He is also Associate Editor of the UNESCO-sponsored Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum project. The second volume of his collected essays, Manichaeism in Central Asia and China (Brill, 1998).

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9789004181410

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The Codex Judas Papers

Edited by April DeConick

This book contains the proceedings from the Codex Judas Congress held to discuss the newly-restored Tchacos Codex. Since this codex is a newly-conserved ancient book of Christian manuscripts which had yet to be discussed collaboratively by a body of scholars, this book is nothing less than a ...

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9789004180345

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Biblical Argument in Manichaean Missionary Practice

J.A. van den Berg

€133.00$172.00

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9789004175747

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Manichaeism and Its Legacy

J. Kevin Coyle

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.

€125.00$162.00

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9789004173231

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Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking

Tuomas Rasimus

Examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts rewriting Genesis, to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label ‘Ophite,’ this book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism.

€136.00$176.00

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9789004175075

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Valentinian Ethics and Paraenetic Discourse

Philip L. Tite

Offering a fresh assessment of the presence and function of paraenesis within Valentinianism, this book places Valentinian moral exhortation within the context of early Christian moral discourse. Like other Christians, Valentinians were not only interested in ethics, but used moral exhortation ...

€110.00$142.00

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9789004174368

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Pentadic Redaction in the Manichaean Kephalaia

Timothy Pettipiece

This study identifies a significant redactional tendency whereby the compilers of the Kephalaia sought to clarify ambiguities in “canonical” Manichaean tradition by means of five-part numerical series, thereby challenging the conventional wisdom of Manichaean scholarship about the consistency of ...

€110.00$142.00

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9789004172401

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Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1995-2006

David M. Scholer

€115.00$149.00

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9789004172852

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New Light on Manichaeism

Edited by Jason David BeDuhn

Offers the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion from leading scholars in the field, including new reconstructions of literary and artistic sources and analyses of the religion's origins and development across North Africa and West, Central, and East Asia.

€156.00$202.00

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9789004170179

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The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I

€110.00$142.00

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9789004167216

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The Gospel of Judas in Context

edited by Madeleine Scopello

This book offers the papers presented at the First International Conference on the Coptic Gospel of Judas, held in Paris, University of Sorbonne, October 27th-28th 2006. Several crucial literary, historical and doctrinal issues related to this apocryphon of the 2nd century A.C. are explored as ...