Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art write by Manfred Heuser. This book was released on 2020-10-26. Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume consists of two sections, written by the two authors. The first section contains a study by Manfred Heuser on The Manichaean Myth According to Coptic Sources. This is the first systematic presentation of the basic myth as reflected in Coptic material. The second part is a collection of essays on Manichaeism by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. The essays are concerned, inter alia, with Manichaean art and symbolism, including newly found examples of Manichaean art from Central Asia.
Emerging from Darkness
Emerging from Darkness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emerging from Darkness write by Paul Mirecki. This book was released on 2020-10-26. Emerging from Darkness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Manichaean Literature
Manichaean Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manichaean Literature write by Jes Peter Asmussen. This book was released on 1975. Manichaean Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mani's Pictures
Mani's Pictures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mani's Pictures write by Zsuzsanna Gulácsi. This book was released on 2016-04-18. Mani's Pictures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The founder of Manichaeism, Mani (216-274/277 CE), not only wrote down his teachings to prevent their adulteration, but also created a set of paintings—the Book of Pictures—to be used in the context of oral instruction. That pictorial handscroll and its later editions became canonical art for Mani's followers for a millennium afterwards. This richly illustrated study systematically explores the artistic culture of religious instruction of the Manichaeans based on textual and artistic evidence. It discusses the doctrinal themes (soteriology, prophetology, theology, and cosmology) depicted in Mani’s canonical pictures. Moreover, it identifies 10th-century fragments of canonical picture books, as well as select didactic images adapted to other, non-canonical art objects (murals, hanging scrolls, mortuary banners, and illuminated liturgical manuscripts) in Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China.
The Light and the Darkness
The Light and the Darkness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Light and the Darkness write by Paul Mirecki. This book was released on 2020-10-26. The Light and the Darkness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the second volume of scholarly studies in Manichaeism which were originally presented before the Manichaean Studies Group of the Society of Biblical Literature from 1997 through 1999. Like its predecessor, Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources (Brill, 1997), this volume presents the latest international scholarship from leading researchers in the growing field of Manichaean studies. Here the researchers move from the continuing foundational work of recovering Manichaean sources to the necessary task of understanding the relationship of Manichaeans to the larger world in which they lived. That relationship took several distinct forms, and the contributions in this book analyze those forms, examining the relationship of Manichaeism with diverse cultural, social and religious traditions.
