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TheChaptersoftheWisdomofMyLordMani Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies Editors JohannesvanOort EinarThomassen EditorialBoard j.d. beduhn – d.m. burns – a.d. deconick w.-p. funk – i. gardner – s.n.c. lieu a. marjanen – l. painchaud – n.a. pedersen t. rasimus – s.g. richter – m. scopello j.d. turner – g. wurst volume92 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/nhms manichaean manuscripts in the chester beatty library The Kephalaia Codex The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani Partiii:Pages343–442(Chapters321–347) Editedandtranslatedby IainGardner JasonBeDuhn PaulC.Dilley leiden | boston TheLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailableonlineathttp://catalog.loc.gov TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill-typeface. issn0929-2470 isbn978-90-04-36336-6(hardback) isbn978-90-04-36340-3(e-book) Copyright2018byIainGardner,JasonBeDuhn,andPaulC.Dilley. ThisworkispublishedbyKoninklijkeBrillnv.KoninklijkeBrillnvincorporatestheimprintsBrill, BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopi,BrillSenseandHoteiPublishing. KoninklijkeBrillnvreservestherighttoprotectthepublicationagainstunauthorizeduseandtoauthorize disseminationbymeansofoffprints,legitimatephotocopies,microformeditions,reprints,translations,and secondaryinformationsources,suchasabstractingandindexingservicesincludingdatabases.Requestsfor commercialre-use,useofpartsofthepublication,and/ortranslationsmustbeaddressedtoKoninklijke Brillnv. Brillhasmadeallreasonableeffortstotraceallrightsholderstoanycopyrightedmaterialusedinthiswork. Incaseswheretheseeffortshavenotbeensuccessfulthepublisherwelcomescommunicationsfrom copyrightholders,sothattheappropriateacknowledgementscanbemadeinfutureeditions,andtosettle otherpermissionmatters. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. Contents Introduction 1 TheChaptersoftheWisdomofMyLordMani:Pages343–442(Chapters321–347) k321 (ThisChapter)…(…–345.5) 6 k322 ThisChaptertellshowtheApostle,beingintheCityofCtesiphon,wentto ThirousaktheCommanderoftheKing.(345.6–353.22) 10 k323 …went…thePalaceoftheKing[ofTouran(?)].(353.23–356.14) 26 k324 ThisChaptertells[that]…Limbsisthis…(356.15–357.18) 32 k325 …beforehim…theCountryofTouran.(357.19–358.20) 34 k326 [Whenthe]Illuminator[wenttotheCityof[Hormēs]taksha[har](?),(hespoke with?)theJudge,the(GreatOneofthe?)City.(358.21–364.9) 36 k327 [Aboutthe]WisdomthatGoundeshtheHoly(?)…utteredwiththeApostlefrom timetotime.(364.10–368.5) 48 k328 ThisChapterspeaksaboutGoundeshquestioningtheApostle. (368.6–369.23) 56 k329 [ThisChapter]tellsaboutGoundesh,[asking]theApostle:Whoisthefirst [RighteousOnewhoreceivedtheBlessing];or[whois]thefirst[Sinner]who receivedtheWoe?(369.24–371.14) 58 k330 ThisChapterspeaksaboutGoundesh,astheApostle…(371.15–372.25) 62 k331 ItspeaksagainaboutGoundesh,questioningtheApostle.(372.26–374.8) 64 k332 ItspeaksagainaboutGoundesh,sittingbeforetheApostle,astheyreadthe [Great]TreasuryofLife.(374.9–381.3) 68 v k333 ThisChaptertellsabouttheApostle:HowhecausestheScribestowriteLetters, SendingthemtoDifferentPlaces.(381.4–384.20) 82 k334 (ThisChapter)…(384.21–387.4) 88 k335 IttellsthattheApostlesaid:ThisTeachingofInsatiablenessexistsinevery Person,exceptforme(?)andmyDisciples.(387.5–388.29) 94 k336 IttellsagainaboutGoundesh,thathecameinbeforemyLord.MyLordasked Him:Whatareyoudoing?Sayshe:Iamdiscontent!(389.1–390.13) 98 k337 ThisChapterspeaksaboutGoundesh,whoaskedtheApostle:TheseTwelve Personsthatyouselected,bywhatMysterydidyouselectthem?OrtheseSeventy- Two,moreover,bywhatMysterydidyouselectthem? (390.14–400.23) 100 k338 ThisChapterspeaksaboutaMan,IodasphesbeinghisName,whoisgreaterthan MasoukeosandGoundesh.HecamebeforeShapurtheKing. (400.24–409.11) 120 k339 (Ittells)…(409.12–413.23) 138 k340 …KardeltheSonofArtaban[went]into…Children…(413.24–415.24) 146 k341 [ThisChapter]speaksaboutafaithfulCatechumen,Pabakosishis[Name].…He askstheApostleaQuestion.(415.25–420.28) 150 k342 ThisChaptersaysthat,whiletheApostleissittingintheChurch,aNoblecamein beforeHim.He(i.e.Mani)spokewithhimintheWisdomofGod. (420.29–427.27) 160 k343 IttellsagainaboutPabakostheCatechumen.HeaskstheApostleaboutaLesson. (427.28–433.14) 174 k344 (ThisChapter)…(433.15–436.20) 186 k345 ThisChapter…(436.21–439.3) 192 vi k346 ThisChaptersaysthat…aboutShapurtheKingin(theLandof?)… (439.4–441.3) 198 k347 ThisChapterspeaksabouttheApostle,whoisinaCity.SomePriestsreceive their…(441.4–442.6) 202 Bibliography 207 Indexof PersonalandPlaceNames 211 Indexof Apostles 212 IndexofTheLightandtheDarkness 213 Indexof ScripturalAllusions 214 vii Introduction The Chester Beatty Kephalaia codex constitutes the ultyofArtsandSocialSciences,UniversityofSydney, secondpartof amassivetwovolume,scholasticcol- forenablingIainGardnerdedicatedresearchtimeand lectionbelongingtotheMedinetMadicorpusofMa- useof itsfacilities;DeanMichaelVincentof theCol- nichaeantexts,purportingtobeoralteachingsofthe legeof ArtsandLettersof NorthernArizonaUniver- religion’sfounder,Mani(or,asourcodexconsistently sity for facilitating research leave for Jason BeDuhn. has,‘theMannichaios’,althoughmostof thetimehe For consultation on various aspects of the project, is referred to simply as ‘the Apostle’). The first part as well as providing an invaluable concordance of of this Coptic Kephalaia collection is contained in theMedinetMadimanuscripts,wewouldliketogive a codex held primarily in Berlin (p. 15996), entitled special thanks to Wolf-Peter Funk of the Université The Chapters of the Teacher, which has been edited Laval. and translated into German by Hans Jakob Polotsky Over the entire course of the project, the staff of and Alexander Böhlig (1935–1940), Alexander Böhlig theChesterBeattyLibraryhavebeenextraordinarily (1966),andWolf-PeterFunk(1999–2018).Thesecond understanding and helpful, beginning with two suc- codex, a part of which is presented here, is held in cessive Directors, Dr. Michael Ryan and Dr. Fionnu- theChesterBeattyLibrary,Dublin,andisentitledThe ala Croke, and two successive curators, Charles Hor- ChaptersoftheWisdomofMyLordMani.Despitethis ton and Jessica Baldwin (now Head of Collections distincttitle,itcontinuesthesequenceof numbered andConservation),alongwithlibrariansCelineWard chaptersfromtheBerlincodex,andbringsthecollec- andHyderAbbas,curatorialassistantElizabethOmid- tiontoaconclusion. varan,aswellasthemanyotherswhohaveassistedat Although the codex was discovered in the late onetimeoranother,fromtheconservationlaboratory 1920s,andconservationworkonitbeguninthe1930s to the photography room,from handling the glassed was completed in the 1950s, earlier plans for an edi- leavestoarchivalresearch. tion did not come to fruition.The current project to Inadditiontomanyhoursofautopsyoftheglassed edit and translate it was initiated in 2008 by an edi- leavesattheChesterBeattyLibrary,theteamworked torialteamconsistingofIainGardner,JasonBeDuhn, withavarietyofphotographicimages.Onemustmen- and Paul Dilley. The editors wish to thank the fol- tion first the facsimile edition published by Søren lowinginstitutionsfortheirgeneroussupportof our Giversen(TheManichaeanCopticPapyriintheChester work:theAustralianResearchCouncilforaDiscovery BeattyLibrary,FacsimileEdition,Volume1:Kephalaia, Projectaward,2009–2012;theUnitedStatesNational Genève:PatrickCramer,1986).Thecblarchiveholds Endowment for the Humanities for a Collaborative copies of the original black and white photographs Researchgrant,2009–2012;theIntramuralGrantsPro- that formed the basis of the facsimile, and these gram of Northern Arizona University for a project were consulted in the process of our work. Addi- seed grant in 2008–2009; the National Humanities tional images were provided by our imaging team, Center for a Goheen Fellowship for 2010 (BeDuhn); Daniel Boone and Ryan Belnap, working under the the American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant auspicesoftheNorthernArizonaUniversityIDEALab, in 2009 for support of travel to Dublin (Dilley); an anditsdirector,MarcelleCoder.Itisveryregrettable AlexandervonHumboldtStiftungrenewalfellowship thatthisresearch-supportlaboratoryhasbeensubse- insummer2011forworkinBerlin,hostedbyDesmond quently dissolved. Digital photographs of some por- Durkin-Meisterernst and the Turfanforschung group tionsofthecodexeditedinthisvolumeweresupplied atbbaw(Dilley);andanArtsandHumanitiesInitia- bythecblin2008andenhancedbyBooneandBel- tive(ahi)AwardfromtheUniversityofIowa(Dilley); nap through computer-based treatments. Other por- theSchoolof Literature,ArtandMediaandtheFac- tions were included in a set of photographs held by 1 theBritishMuseum,takenatthetimeofRolfIbscher’s sages.Itshouldalsobemadeclearthathehasmade conservation work in the 1950s, discovered in the nodirectinputintotheeditionasitispresented,and archive by one of the museum’s archivists, Patricia isinnowayresponsibleforit.Revisionofthetransla- Usick, and provided for our project with the kind tionwasthenputintothehandsofJasonBeDuhn,in permission of Dr. Ilona Regulski, Curator of Egyp- theprocessofwhichanumberofadditionalimprove- tianWrittenCulture,BritishMuseum.Finally,multi- mentstothetextcouldbesuggested.Thistranslation, spectralimagesoftheentirecodexwereproducedby likewise, was circulated for review and comment by Boone and Belnap in 2012 (we wish to acknowledge theothermembersoftheteampriortofinalizingthe theassistanceof JohnGeeof BrighamYoungUniver- manuscriptforpublication.PaulDilleybegantopre- sityinpreparingtheprotocolsforthiswork).Theedi- paretheindex,andthethreetasksof Copticedition, torialteambenefittedfrombeingabletocross-check English translation and indexing continued in tan- readings between these various sets of images, and dem. comparethemtowhatcanbereadtodayfromdirect Authorshipofindividualreadingsisnotcreditedas autopsy. thishasbeenanevolvingeditionofthetext,worked- The editorial work on the manuscript proceeded overrepeatedlybyIainGardnerwithduereferenceto as follows. First, the codex was divided into three thedrafts,commentsandcritiquesof JasonBeDuhn parts,andeachmemberof theteampreparedapre- andPaulDilley.Provisionalreadingshavecontinually liminarysetof readingsforhisrespectivepart.These beenalteredandindeedfrequentlyusedasabasisfor readings were circulated among the other members thedevelopmentof newreadingsandthusasteadily of theteam,eachof whomaddedorcorrectedread- improvedunderstandingoftheoverallwork.Thispro- ingswherepossiblefromhisownexaminationofthe cesscontinuesandtheprintpublicationrepresentsa imagesandmanuscript.Atthenextstage,afterteam snapshotof thereadingof thecodexatthatparticu- consultationoncodicologicalmatters,allof thepro- larpointintime.Unanimousagreementontextand visional drafts were put into the hands of our team translation was not always obtained, and although leader, Iain Gardner, who began extensive revisions consensusormajorityopinionhasgenerallybeenfol- and the imposition of certain protocols across the lowed,andtheeditioncarriesthecollectiveeffortsof entirecodex.Gardner’sworkatthisstageconstituted the entire team, Iain Gardner has final responsibil- a significant advance in the overall continuity and ityfortheCoptictextpresentedhere.JasonBeDuhn sense of the manuscript, resulting in an extensively bears final responsibility for the English translation. reworked Coptic text and a complete draft English PaulDilleyhasundertakenfinalresponsibilityforthe translationin2015.Histextandtranslationwerethen index and associated grammatical identifications to recirculated among the other members of the team bepresentedattheconclusionoftheeditorialprocess formark-upandcomment,assentordissentonread- withthepublicationofthefinalvolume. ings,andfurthersuggestionsforimprovement,partic- Anattempthasbeenmadetoapplystandardproto- ularlyreviewofpertinentCopticgrammarandsyntax colsconsistentlyacrosstheentireCoptictext,reflect- byPaulDilley.In2016Gardnerundertookpreparation inganidealformofthesetofscribalpracticesaswell ofthefinaldraftofthatpartoftheeditiontobepub- astheactualconditionsobservedinthemanuscript. lished in the current volume. At this stage, the elec- These include matters such as ekthesis of new para- tronic Concordance of Medinet Madi manuscripts graphs of text, the use of larger font for initial let- preparedbyWolf-PeterFunkwasabletobeconsulted, ters, indication of breaks in the text, and placement andthelatter’sprovisionalreadingsfromthecodexas of superlinear strokes, as well as the dotting of inse- foundtherecontributedtothefurtherimprovement curelettersandtheuseofbrackets.Thisimposeduni- ofthetext.WearemostgratefultoDr.Funkformaking formity at times obscures a certain variety (deliber- thisresourceavailabletous,andacknowledgethatwe ateorotherwise)inthescribalpractice.Forexample, havebenefittedfromhisunderstandingofcertainpas- thescribewasnotalwaysconsistentintheplacingof 2

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