Jewish Lore In Manichaean Cosmogony

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Jewish Lore In Manichaean Cosmogony

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Author : John C. Reeves
language : en
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Release Date : 2016-07-23

Jewish Lore In Manichaean Cosmogony written by John C. Reeves and has been published by Hebrew Union College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-23 with Religion categories.

A work entitled the "Book of Giants" figures in every list of the Manichaean "canon" preserved from antiquity. Both the nature of this work and the intellectual baggage of the third-century Persian prophet to whom it is ascribed remained unknown to scholars until 1943, when fragments of several Middle Iranian versions of the Book of Giants were published by W. B. Henning. Twenty-eight years later, at Qumran, J. T. Milik discovered several copies of a fragmentary Aramaic work which is unquestionably the precursor of the later Manichaean recension. One other important work, Mani's "autobiography," the so-called Cologne Mani Codex, was brought to scholarly attention in 1970 with evidence that Mani spent his youth among the Elchasaites, a Judeo-Christian sect that observed the Sabbath, strict dietary laws, and rigorous purification practices. Although leading Orientalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have consistently stressed the Iranian component in Mani's thought, Reeves argues, in the light of evidence drawn from the above-mentioned discoveries and from a rich panorama of other textual sources, that the fundamental structure of Manichaean cosmogony is ultimately indebted to Jewish exegetical expansions of Genesis 6:1-4. Reeves begins with an examination of the ancient testimonies about the contents of Mani's Book of Giants. Then, using documents from Second Temple Judaism, classical Gnostic literature, Christian and Muslim heresiological reports, Syriac texts, and Manichaean writings, he provides a detailed analysis of both the Qumran and Manichaean rescensions of the work, demonstrating additional interdependencies and suggesting new narrative arrangements. He addresses a series of quotations from an unnamed Manichaean source found in a paschal homily of the sixth-century Monophysite patriarch Severus of Antioch and a narrative from Thoeodore bar Konai. In sum, Reeves demonstrates that the motifs of Jewish Enochic literature, in particular those of the story of the Watchers and Giants, form the skeletal structure of Mani's cosmological teachings, and that Chapters 1 to 11 of Genesis fertilized Near Eastern thought, even to the borders of India and China.

Jewish Lore In Manichaean Cosmology

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Author : John C. Reeves
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-01-01

Jewish Lore In Manichaean Cosmology written by John C. Reeves and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with categories.

Heralds Of That Good Realm

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Author : John Reeves
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-26

Heralds Of That Good Realm written by John Reeves and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with Religion categories.

This volume examines the transmission of biblical pseudepigraphic literature and motifs from their largely Jewish cultural contexts in Palestine to developing gnostic milieux of Syria and Mesopotamia, particularly that one lying behind the birth and growth of Manichaeism. It surveys biblical pseudepigraphic literary activity in the late antique Near East, devoting special attention to revelatory works attributed to the five biblical forefathers who are cited in the Cologne Mani Codex: Adam, Seth, Enosh, Shem, and Enoch. The author provides a philological, literary, and religio-historical analysis of each of the five pseudepigraphic citations contained in the Codex, and offers hypotheses regarding the original provenance of each citation and the means by which these traditions have been adapted to their present context. This study is an important contribution to the scholarly reassessment of the roles played by Second Temple Judaism, Jewish Christian sectarianism, and classical gnosis in the formulation and development of Syro-Mesopotamian religious currents.

Prolegomena To A History Of Islamic Manichaeism

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Author : John C. Reeves
language : en
Publisher: Equinox
Release Date : 2011

Prolegomena To A History Of Islamic Manichaeism written by John C. Reeves and has been published by Equinox this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Religion categories.

This book provides an anthology of sources highlighting, a gnostic religion which flourished largely clandestinely in the Near East, Central Asia, and China until the beginning of the seventeenth century. It translates and discusses the importance of a number of Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew testimonies for a proper understanding of the cultural importance of what most scholars consider to be the first world religion. Many of these sources are translated here into English for the first time.

Biblical Argument In Manichaean Missionary Practice

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Author : Jacob Albert van den Berg
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-12-07

Biblical Argument In Manichaean Missionary Practice written by Jacob Albert van den Berg and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-07 with Religion categories.

This book offers a reconstruction and analysis in context of the Disputationes, a treatise of Mani’s missionary Adimantus. In it, Adimantus, like Marcion, placed parts of the Old and New Testament opposite each other.

Manichaeism In Mesopotamia And The Roman East

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Author : S.N.C. Lieu
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-08-25

Manichaeism In Mesopotamia And The Roman East written by S.N.C. Lieu and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with History categories.

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 a number of major articles by the author published between 1981 and 1992 on the history of the sect in Mesopotamia and the Roman Empire. The studies have all been up-dated in the light of newly published material.

The Aramaic Books Of Enoch And Related Literature From Qumran

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-05-16

The Aramaic Books Of Enoch And Related Literature From Qumran written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-16 with Religion categories.

This volume contains studies that explore the content and meaning of the Qumran manuscripts of the Aramaic Books of Enoch, the Book of Giants, and related literature. The essays shed new light on the lexicon, orthography and grammar of the Aramaic scrolls, as well as their relationship to schematic astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia. Contributors examine the origin of the angelic tradition of the Watchers, the textual and literary relationship of the Aramaic scrolls to the Book of the Watchers, and the culpability of humanity in the spread of evil on earth according to the myth of the fallen angels.

Mani And Augustine

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Author : Johannes van Oort
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-02-10

Mani And Augustine written by Johannes van Oort and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-10 with Religion categories.

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 ‘apostle of Jesus Christ’, on Jewish elements in Manichaeism and on ‘human semen eucharist’, eschatology and imagery of Christ as ‘God’s Right Hand’. The second part of the book concentrates on the question to what extent the former ‘auditor’ Augustine became acquainted with Mani’s gnostic world religion and his canonical writings, and explores to what extent Manichaeism had a lasting impact on the most influential church father of the West.

Religion And The Everyday Life Of Manichaeans In Kellis

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Author : Mattias Brand
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-05-20

Religion And The Everyday Life Of Manichaeans In Kellis written by Mattias Brand and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-20 with Religion categories.

Published in Open Access with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Winner of the Manfred Lautenschläger Award! 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 community, the fourth-century papyri sketch a dynamic image of lived religious practice, with all the contradictions, fuzzy boundaries, and limitations of everyday life. Following these microhistorical insights, this book demonstrates how family life, gift-giving, death rituals, communal gatherings, and book writing are connected to our larger academic debates about religious change in late antiquity.

The Medinet Madi Library Of Manichaean Codices At 90

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-06-26

The Medinet Madi Library Of Manichaean Codices At 90 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-26 with Religion categories.

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.