Manichaean Texts Research Articles

Liu Hongliang. Tulufan xinchu Moni jiao wenxian yanjiu. Beijing, Wenwu chubanshe [Cultural Relics Publishing House], 2000 [in Chinese]. [Studies in the Manichaean texts recently recovered at Turfan

During the early 1980s a number of important manuscripts were discovered at Bezeklik near Turfan, the most remarkable being three long Manichaean Sogdian letters (A, B and C : 135, 79 and 29 lines respectively). The fine miniature with which the first letter is adorned has already become well known as a result of its publication in Wenwu 1985, N° 8, colour plate facing p. 16, but the texts themselves, which are written in extremely difficult late Sogdian script and language, have not previous...

I. Gardner (ed.), The Kephalaia of the Teacher: the Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with Commentary (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 37). Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1995. Pp. xli + 307. ISBN 90-04-10248-5. Fl. 170/US$97.25.

I. Gardner (ed.), The Kephalaia of the Teacher: the Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with Commentary (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 37). Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1995. Pp. xli + 307. ISBN 90-04-10248-5. Fl. 170/US$97.25.

The Kephalaia of the Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with Commentary. Iain Gardner

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Kephalaia of the Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with Commentary. Iain Gardner Hans Dieter BetzHans Dieter Betz Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Religion Volume 76, Number 3Jul., 1996 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/489809 Views: 2Total views on this site Copyright 1996 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

From Parthian into Chinese The transmission of Manichaean texts in Central Asia

From Parthian into Chinese The transmission of Manichaean texts in Central Asia

マニの啓示にあらわれた“仲介者”の観念

We shall come across the Manichaean texts of the Middle Persian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabian. In these texts specially we find several words, Nrjmyg, SAIS Συζυγος, Tawm as the Mediator between the Father of Light and the Apostle (Mani). The six translations of these words is (1) Twin or Pair, (2) Familiar, (3) Double, (4) Companion, (5) Consort, (6) Angel. The texts about these words is the Middle Persian fragmentary texts “M49 II”, Coptic texts “Manichaische Homilien”, “Manichaean Psalm-Book” and “Kephalaia” and new Greek texts “Kolner Codex”.From these texts I may conclude that the Twin as the Mediator of Mani was angelic. As to this conception of the Mediator there are some difference between his first and second revelation. Above all, in the period of the second revelation, the conception of the Mediator changed from Angel to Twin or Pair-Companion.When he entered upon his mission, the so-called three books in the canon were already completed. He said to his disciples: “the Pragmateia, the Book of the Secrets and Book of the Giants are gifts bestowed (written) by the Twin of Light. Other books in the canon is the Great Living Gospel given by the Envoy and the Treasure of Life given by the Column of Glory.” Namely the two books was given by Mediators as Iranian “Manvahmed vazurg (the Great Nous)”, and came later.Therefore the revelation in the three books and other both books each reflects the change of the religious thought of Mani. The former represents his early idea, the latter his later idea.I may conclude that the conception of the Mediator in the revelation of Mani changed gradually from the Jewish Christian or Mandaean Gnosis to the Iranian Gnosis (Twin→the Great Nous.)