Studia Manichaica

Papers from the Tenth Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies held at Aarhus University, 8-11 August 2022

Nils Arne Pedersen, Gunner Mikkelsen, René Falkenberg (eds)

Pages: xiv + 298 p.
Size:210 x 297 mm
Illustrations:52 col., 38 tables b/w.

Language(s):English
Publication Year:2026

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Subject(s)

Manichaeism

BIO

Nils Arne Pedersen is Associate Professor in Church History at Aarhus University (Denmark).
Gunner B. Mikkelsen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
René Falkenberg, Dr., specialist in New Testament studies and Coptic texts (Manichaeism and Nag Hammadi).

Summary

The volume contains the proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies (IAMS), held at Aarhus University from 8–11 August 2022, covering all major aspects of Manichaean studies. Accordingly, it includes studies of Manichaean texts, concepts, script and art, editions of Manichaean texts, and studies of Augustine’s relationship to Manichaeism.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Jason Beduhn
Is there a Manichaean “Christology”? The Dangers of Looking at Manichaeism through the Lens of Patristics and Church History

Michael Browder
Wherefore Art Thou, Moses? Mani & Judaism

Iris Colditz
A Passage on a Manichaean Ethical Principle and Related Texts

Majella Franzmann
Mani’s Early Life Experience and its Possible Effect on his Choice of Religious Community Structure, Religious Symbolism, and Story Lines

Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
Digital Matching of the Lost Berlin and the Surviving New Delhi Fragments of an Uygur Manichaean Mural from 9th/10th-century Kocho discovered by Albert von Le Coq (1904) and Aurel Stein (1914)

Erica C.D. Hunter
From Mesopotamian to Manichaean Incantation Texts: Transitioning Locus and Language

Gábor Kósa
Mānī’s Visit to India in Light of the Chinese Manichaean Painting ‘Hagiography (3)’

Samuel N.C. Lieu
Manichaean Self-Identity Revisited (II)

Floriana Marra
Manichaean Cosmogony and Cosmology between Iranian Background and Heterogenous Religious Knowledge

Rea Matsangou
Indelible Identities: Manichaean and Other Converts under Justinian and Beyond

Evgenïa Moiseeva
A Jealous God in Adimantus’ Disputationes: An Attempt of Reconstruction

Betül Özbay
Orthographic Features of the Manichaean Pothi-Book

Nils Arne Pedersen
‘Sheep Bound to the Tree’: A Manichaean Expression Derived from Interpretations of Genesis 22

Tim Pettipiece
City of God(s): Unity and Plurality in Early Manichaean Theological Discourse

Christiane Reck & Mohammad Shokri-Foumeshi
Praise of the Dawn and Praise of the Bema: Reconstruction of a Manichaean Middle Persian Bifolio from the Turfan Berlin Collection

Leighton Smith
Flow My Tears, the Manichaean Said: Crying as a Practice of the Self and Salvation in Manichaean Qocho

Håkon F. Teigen
Souls in the Rain: The Cycle of Transmigration in the Coptic Manichaica and its Indic Roots

Kader Tüngüç
A Semantic Approach to Similes in Manichaean Uyghur Hymns

Christina Turner
The Manichaeans at Cassiciacum: A Study of Augustine’s Early Philosophical Inquiry

Aäron Vanspauwen
Mani’s Epistula fundamenti in Augustine’s Debate with the Manichaean Felix: A Familiar Source, a New Discussion

Abdurishid Yakup
Still Unedited Old Uyghur Manichaean Texts in the Berlin Turfan Collection: Six Fragments of Diverse Manichaean Stories

Peter Zieme
Manichaean Texts in Runic Script. A Draft Study by Werner Sundermann