Description:
This volume contains several presentations of new Manichaean source materials and provocative essays upon them. 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, Turkic studies, and Coptology.
Throughout the book the studies present and discuss a variety of source materials representing the vast geographical spread of Manichaeism. This book should prove to be foundational for future research on Manichaeism and late antique religions in general.
Brief description:
Paul Mirecki, Th.D. (1986) in Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. He is the founding Chair of the Manichaean Studies Group (1988). His publications include a wide variety of studies in ancient Mediterranean religions with a primary focus on Coptic papyrology.
Jason BeDuhn, Ph.D. (1995) in Comparative Religion, Indiana University, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and History at the Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. He is the Co-Chair of the Manichaean Studies Group. He has published numerous articles on late antique religions with a primary focus on Manichaeism.
Review Quotes: '...no future studies on Manichaeism and its source material can afford to bypass this work...'
Edgar C. Polomé, The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1999.