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A study of the life of Mani using the very latest research, new texts and archaeological discoveries. The history of Manichaeism has been revolutionised by spectacular finds in Egypt, Central Asia and China, to be established as a pivotal Silk Road religion and conduit for ideas between east and west.

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A study of the life of Mani using the very latest research, new texts and archaeological discoveries. The history of Manichaeism has been revolutionised by spectacular finds in Egypt, Central Asia and China, to be established as a pivotal Silk Road religion and conduit for ideas between east and west.
Autorenporträt
Iain Gardner is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He is a Coptic language and Manichaean studies specialist who has published the editio princeps of more than a 100 texts, especially the major archive of fourth-century papyri discovered in Egypt by the Dakhleh Oasis Project and published under his editorship in a series of P. Kellis volumes. He is the author of the standard English translation of the Berlin Kephalaia (1995), the most extensive compendium of Manichaean teachings known from antiquity; and he leads the ongoing project to edit one of the largest papyrus codices that survives from the ancient world: The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani (housed in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin). He was recently awarded a major Discovery Project grant by the Australian Research Council to lead an international team studying 'Manichaean Liturgical Texts and Practices from Egypt to China' (2019-22).