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"Overturning long-held assumptions about dualism, asceticism, spirituality, and the pursuit of salvation, this book changes completely how we look at ancient religion adn the environment in which Christianity arose ..."
"Reconstructing Manichaeism from scraps of ancient texts and the ungenerous polemic of its enemies (such as the ex-Manichaean Augustine of Hippo), BeDuhn reveals for the first time the religion as it was actually practiced. He describes the Manichaeans' daily ritual meal, their …
Reconstructing Manichaeism from scraps of ancient texts and the ungenerous polemic of its enemies (such as the ex-Manichaean Augustine of Hippo), BeDuhn reveals for the first time the religion as it was actually practiced. He describes the Manichaeans' daily ritual meal, their s…
Werner Sundermanns zentraler Forschungsgegenstand waren die in Berlin aufbewahrten mitteliranischen Textfragmente aus der Turfanoase in Ostturkistan, der heutigen Uigurischen Autonomen Region Xinjiang, China. Seine Texteditionen stellte er stets in einen philologischen, sprach- …
Werner Sundermanns zentraler Forschungsgegenstand waren die in Berlin aufbewahrten mitteliranischen Textfragmente aus der Turfanoase in Ostturkistan, der heutigen Uigurischen Autonomen Region Xinjiang, China. Seine Texteditionen stellte er stets in einen philologischen, sprach- …
Werner Sundermann's central research subject was the central Iranian text fragments from the Turfanoase in East Turkistan, today's Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China. He always placed his text editions in a philological, linguistic or religious-historical context. The k…
"This volume offers a comprehensive account of a Manichaean community in fourth-century Roman Egypt. The study analyses papyrological material from Kellis, a village in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis, and their implications for Manichaeism as a socio-religious movement. Drawing on social…