03343nam 2200781Ia 450 991097070830332120200520144314.097811071419571107141958978128051590312805159029780511214097051121409X9780511215889051121588697805112105180511210515978051131489605113148929780511616891051161689997805112122840511212283(CKB)1000000000354205(EBL)266505(OCoLC)173610102(SSID)ssj0000197336(PQKBManifestationID)11172030(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197336(PQKBWorkID)10155237(PQKB)11604090(UkCbUP)CR9780511616891(Au-PeEL)EBL266505(CaPaEBR)ebr10131759(CaONFJC)MIL51590(MiAaPQ)EBC266505(EXLCZ)99100000000035420520030812d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierManichaean texts from the Roman Empire /edited by Iain Gardner and Samuel N.C. Lieu1st ed.Cambridge ;New York Cambridge University Press20041 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).9780521568227 0521568226 9780521560900 052156090X Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-306) and index.1. Introduction -- 2. The life of Mani -- 3. Manichaeism in the Roman Empire -- 4. The scriptures of Mani -- 5. Teachings -- 6. Worship and ethic -- 7. Community texts.Founded by Mani (c. AD 216-276), a Syrian visionary of Judaeo-Christian background who lived in Persian Mesopotamia, Manichaeism spread rapidly into the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries AD and became one of the most persecuted heresies under Christian Roman emperors. The religion established missionary cells in Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Rome and has in Augustine of Hippo the most famous of its converts. The study of the religion in the Roman Empire has benefited from discoveries of genuine Manichaean texts from Medinet Madi and from the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt, as well as successful decipherment of the Cologne Mani-Codex which gives an autobiography of the founder in Greek. This 2004 book is a single-volume collection of sources for this religion, and draws from material mostly unknown to English-speaking scholars and students, offers in translation genuine Manichaean texts from Greek, Latin and Coptic.ManichaeismRomeRomeReligionManichaeism299/.932Gardner Iain283783Lieu Samuel N. C174515MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970708303321Manichaean texts from the Roman Empire4334568UNINA