Iain Gardner

The Founder of Manichaeism

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 375g
• ISBN-13: 9781108499071
• ISBN-10: 1108499074
• Artikelnr.: 57087894

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to the many lives of Mani
inter
religious polemic and scholarly controversy; 2. Mani's background and early life
who was he and What did he think he was doing?; 3. Mani's career as the 'Apostle of Jesus Christ'
his missions and the community he founded; 4. Mani's death
inter
religious conflict in early Sasanian Iran and the memory of the Apostle.