Mani in Dublin: Selected Papers from the Seventh International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 8 12 September 2009

478 Pages·2015·7.05 MB·English

by  Siegfried G. Richter (editor), Charles Horton (editor), Klaus Ohlhafer (editor)

ManiinDublin
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Mani in Dublin
SelectedPapersfromtheSeventh
InternationalConferenceoftheInternational
AssociationofManichaeanStudiesintheChester
BeattyLibrary,Dublin,8–12September2009
Editedby
SiegfriedG.Richter
CharlesHorton
KlausOhlhafer
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
ListofAbbreviations xii
ListofContributors xiv
Preface xvii
1 mani—TheLostReligionofLight:TheInterpretationofManichaean
ManuscriptsforaGeneralAudience 1
CharlesHorton
2 DerKampfAugustinsgegendieManichäer:DasBeispielderSchrift
DeGenesicontraManichaeos 7
SaraAntoniettaLuisaArnoldi
3 ThePhysicsofLight,DarknessandMatterinJohntheGrammarian’s
FirstHomilyagainsttheManichaeans:EarlyByzantine
Anti-ManichaeanLiteratureasaWindowonControversiesinLater
Neoplatonism 19
ByardBennett
4 PrimalMan,SonofGod:FromExplicittoImplicitChristianElements
inManichaeism 34
FernandoBermejo
5 TheAbstractofaReligionor:WhatisManichaeism? 47
IrisColditz
6 BiblicalPseudepigraphaamongNorthAfricanManichaeans 71
J.KevinCoyle(†)
7 APossibleLiturgicalContextfortheFirstHymntoJesusinthe
ChineseManichaeanHymnbook(Col.6–44) 101
Jean-DanielDubois
8 AbecedarianHymns,aSurveyofPublishedMiddlePersianand
ParthianManichaeanHymns 110
DesmondDurkin-Meisterernst
vi contents
9 IndividualisationofRedemptioninaManichaeanPaintingfrom
Ningbo 153
JorindeEbert
10 Kephalaia55andtheGreatFreeWoman:ConceptsofSeclusionand
PublicExhibitioninRelationtoWomenandFemaleFiguresin
ManichaeanTexts 161
MajellaFranzmann
11 ImagesofJesusinManichaeanArt 169
ZsuzsannaGulácsi
12 TwoManichaeanJudgmentScenes—mik iii4959vandtheYamato
BunkakanSandōzuPainting 196
GáborKósa
13 RemainsoftheReligionofLightinXiapu(霞浦)County,Fujian
Province 228
MaXiaohe
14 RecentResearchonChineseManichaeanTexts 259
GunnerMikkelsen
15 FragenanKephalaiaKapitel151(ed.Funk)–KephalaiaKapitel154
(ed.Schmidt/Polotsky)Revisited 273
WolfB.Oerter
16 SyriacTextsinManichaeanScript:NewEvidence 284
NilsArnePedersen
17 SogdianManichaeanConfessionalFragmentsinSogdianScriptinthe
BerlinTurfanCollection:TheFragmentsoftheXwāstwānīft 289
ChristianeReck
18 The“SealoftheMouth”intheAnti-ManichaeanPolemicofEphrem
theSyrian 324
FlaviaRuani
19 TheConceptofBodyandtheBodyofChristintheManichaean
CopticPsalm-Book 338
CristosTheodorou
contents vii
20 Lamanifestationdel’imagedansl’«HoméliesurlaGrande
Guerre» 359
AgnèsLeTiec
21 TheLastRemainsofManichaeisminVillagesofJinjiangCounty,
China 371
WangYuanyuanandLinWushu
22 SouthernChineseVersionofMani’sPictureBookDiscovered? 389
YutakaYoshida
Plates 399
IndexLocorum 447
IndexRerum 456

List of Figures
1.1 ExhibitionentranceareaintroducingtheManichaeanCollectionofthe
ChesterBeattyLibrary 399
1.2 Videozonewiththe‘Sod-of-Turf’exhibitintheforeground 399
1.3 ThecentralareaoftheexhibitionillustratedthespreadofManichaeismand
thepapyrus-codicesfromMedinetMadi 400
1.4 Thefinalarea‘ALostReligion-ARestoredHistory’outlinedtheworkof
academicsandconservatorsinpreservingtheancienttexts 400
9.1 ChineseManichaeanpaintingofthe13thcentury—theYamatoBunkakan
painting 401
9.2 TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:TheJustJudge 402
9.3a TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Dāenāwithherattendants 402
9.3b TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Dāenāwithherattendants 403
9.4 TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Fateafterdeath 403
9.5 mik iii4979a,bverso 404
9.6 mik iii6265andiii6966crecto 404
9.7 mik iii6918 405
9.8 mik iii4956brecto[?] 405
9.9 mik iii6286side1[?] 406
9.10 mik iii6286side2[?] 407
9.11 TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:inscription 408
9.12a TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Fateafterdeath 408
9.12b TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Fateafterdeath 409
9.13 TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Mani(detail) 409
9.14 TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Mani(detail) 410
9.15 TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Maniflankedbyfourpersons 410
9.16a TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:lacquerstand 411
9.16b TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:electus(detail) 411
9.17 TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:auditor(detail) 412
9.18 mik iii6368(detail) 412
9.19 TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:auditor(detail) 413
9.20 TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:paradisicalscene 413
9.21a TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Dāenāandattendants 414
9.21b TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Dāenāandattendants 414
9.22a TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Dāenāandattendants 415
9.22b TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:Dāenāandattendants 415
9.23 TheYamatoBunkakanpainting:ZhangSiyiandhiswifeZhen
Xinniang 416