Varia Manichaica

This volume brings together to works of some of the best known and most established scholars in Gnostic and Manichaean scholars, Iranologists and art historians. It contains two important and indispensable catalogues of Turfan texts and also studies covering topics such as cosmogony, hymnology and manuscript illumination. A number of Turfan texts in Sogdian and Uygur will be published for the first time in the volume.

Foreword
Editors and contributors

Sergio BASSO, Manichaean fragments related to the ‘Barlaam and Ioasaph saga’
Adam BENKATO, A Fragment of an Iranian Manichaean ‘Oral Tradition’
Fernando BERMEJO-RUBIO, Mani as a paradigm of the Manichaean Church in the Cologne Mani Codex
Iris COLDITZ, Strategies for success. Manichaeism under the early Sasanians
Desmond DURKIN-MEISTERERNST, An update of Boyce's Catalogue of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian 
Eduard IRICINSCHI, “A person of the law of the Jews” (2Ke 433.21): Mani’s Debates as Appropriation and Displacement in the Chester Beatty Kephalaia 
Samuel N.C. LIEU, A catalogue of the Uygur Manichaean texts 
Enrico MORANO, Uygur in the Manichaean Sogdian texts in Manichaean script from the Berlin Turfan Collection 
Betül ÖZBAY, Şehnaz ÖZCAN  The Lotus illustration in a Manichaean manuscript
Nicholas SIMS-WILLIAMS, The “seven adversities” in a Manichaean Sogdian hymn
Michel TARDIEU, La métaphore de l’auberge
Peter ZIEME, “Worte für die Seele”. Altuigurische manichäische Fragmente with an appendix by Yutaka YOSHIDA