This volume examines the transmission of biblical pseudepigraphic literature and motifs from their largely Jewish cultural contexts in Palestine to developing gnostic milieux of Syria and Mesopotamia, particularly that one lying behind the birth and growth of Manichaeism. It sur…
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 study proceeds from an investigation of the significance of the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo in some of the key components of St. Augustine's extended anti-Manichaean polemic. To a great extent, his devastating critique of the Manichaeans' world view, their conce…
Prolegomena to a history of Islamic Manichaeism
This book provides an anthology of sources highlighting Manichaeism, a gnostic religion which flourished largely clandestinely in the Near East, Central Asia, and China until the beginning of the seventeenth century. It translates and discusses the importance of a number of Arab…
