Emerging from darkness
Subtitle: studies in the recovery of Manichaean sources
By: edited by Paul Mirecki and Jason BeDuhn.
Contributors: Mirecki, Paul Allan.; BeDuhn, Jason.
Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ;; 43
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Leiden; New York; Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Manichaeism -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Modern interpretation of the Manichaean religious tradition requires a firm foundation in the sober and meticulous reconstruction of highly fragmentary sources. The studies collected in this volume contribute to such a foundation by bringing new primary texts to the public for the first time, extracting new data from previously known sources, and defining and delimiting important but previously neglected sets of material.

The studies are authored by an international group of leading scholars in the fields of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern studies, comparative religion, early Christianity, patristics, art history, Turkic studies and Coptology.

The textual and art historical materials examined possess distinctive histories, character and significance representing the broad geographical range of Manichaeism from Algeria to China. By elucidating these essential remains of the Manichaean religion, the comprehensive treatments contained in Emerging from Darkness provide a provocative picture of Manichaeism as a diverse and productive tradition in a variety of settings and media.

The volume will be foundational for future scholarly studies on the sources presented and for studies in Manichaeism and late antique religions in general.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Emerging from darkness : Manichaean studies at the end of the 20th century / Paul Mirecki and Jason BeDuhn; title: Magical spell, Manichaean letter / Paul Mirecki, Iain Gardner, and Anthony Alcock; title: The Tebessa codex : a Manichaean treatise on biblical exegesis and church order / Jason BeDuhn and Geoffrey Harrison; title: The Turkic Manichaean literature / Larry Clark; title: The reconstruction of the Manichaean Kephalaia / Wolf-Peter Funk; title: The Manichaean community at Kellis : a progress report / Iain Gardner; title: Identifying the corpus of Manichaean art among the Turfan remains / Zsuzsanna Gulácsi; title: Manichaean citations from the Prose refutations of Ephrem / John C. Reeves; title: Marginal notes on Manichaeism from an outsider / Hans-Martin Schenke.