Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Preface

Chapter 1. MANI—The Lost Religion of Light: The Interpretation of Manichaean Manuscripts for a General Audience (Horton)

Chapter 2. Der Kampf Augustins gegen die Manichäer: Das Beispiel der Schrift De Genesi contra Manichaeos (Arnoldi)

Chapter 3. The Physics of Light, Darkness and Matter in John the Grammarian’s First Homily against the Manichaeans: Early Byzantine Anti-Manichaean Literature as a Window on Controversies in Later Neoplatonism (Bennett)

Chapter 4. Primal Man, Son of God: From Explicit to Implicit Christian Elements in Manichaeism (Bermejo)

Chapter 5. The Abstract of a Religion Or: What Is Manichaeism? (Colditz)

Chapter 6. Biblical Pseudepigrapha among North African Manichaeans (Coyle)

Chapter 7. A Possible Liturgical Context for the First Hymn to Jesus in the Chinese Manichaean Hymnbook (Col. 6–44) (Dubois)

Chapter 8. Abecedarian Hymns, a Survey of Published Middle Persian and Parthian Manichaean Hymns (Durkin-Meisterernst)

Chapter 9. Individualisation of Redemption in a Manichaean Painting from Ningbo (Ebert)

Chapter 10. Kephalaia 55 and the Great Free Woman: Concepts of Seclusion and Public Exhibition in Relation to Women and Female Figures in Manichaean Texts (Franzmann)

Chapter 11. Images of Jesus in Manichaean Art (Gulácsi)

Chapter 12. Two Manichaean Judgment Scenes—MIK III 4959 V and the Yamato Bunkakan Sandōzu Painting (Kósa)

Chapter 13. Remains of the Religion of Light in Xiapu (‭霞浦‬) County, Fujian Province (Ma)

Chapter 14. Recent Research on Chinese Manichaean Texts (Mikkelsen)

Chapter 15. Fragen an Kephalaia Kapitel 151 (Ed. Funk) – Kephalaia Kapitel 154 (Ed. Schmidt/Polotsky) Revisited (Oerter)

Chapter 16. Syriac Texts in Manichaean Script: New Evidence (Pedersen)

Chapter 17. Sogdian Manichaean Confessional Fragments in Sogdian Script in the Berlin Turfan Collection: The Fragments of the Xwāstwānīft (Reck)

Chapter 18. The “Seal of the Mouth” in the Anti-Manichaean Polemic of Ephrem the Syrian (Ruani)

Chapter 19. The Concept of Body and the Body of Christ in the Manichaean Coptic Psalm-Book (Theodorou)

Chapter 20. La manifestation de l’image dans l’«Homélie sur la Grande Guerre» (Le Tiec)

Chapter 21. The Last Remains of Manichaeism in Villages of Jinjiang County, China (Wang and Lin)

Chapter 22. Southern Chinese Version of Mani’s Picture Book Discovered? (Yoshida)

Plates

Index Locorum

Index Rerum