New Light on Manichaeism Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
Editors Stephen Emmel & Johannes van Oort
Editorial Board H. W. Attridge – R. Cameron – A. D. DeConick W.-P. Funk – I. Gardner – C. W. Hedrick S. N. C. Lieu – P. Nagel – B. A. Pearson S. G. Richter – J. M. Robinson – K. Rudolph M. Scopello – W. Sundermann – G. Wurst
VOLUME 64 New Light on Manichaeism
Papers from the Sixth International Congress on Manichaeism
Organized by The International Association of Manichaean Studies
Edited by Jason David BeDuhn
LEIDEN • BOSTON 2009 This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
International Conference on Manichaeism (6th : 2005 : Flagstaff, Ariz.) New light on Manichaeism : papers from the sixth International Congress on Manichaeism ; organized by the International Association of Manichaean Studies / edited by Jason David BeDuhn. p. cm. — (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies) Includes index. ISBN 978-90-04-17285-2 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Manichaeism—Congresses. I. BeDuhn, Jason. II. Title. III. Series.
BT1410.158 2005 299’.932—dc22 2008050516
ISSN 0929-2470 ISBN 978 90 04 17285 2
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CONTENTS
List of Plates ...... ix Preface ...... xi
A Religion of Deeds: Scepticism in the Doctrinally Liberal Manichaeism of Faustus and Augustine ...... 1 Jason David BeDuhn
The Conversation of John the Orthodox with a Manichaean: An Analysis of Its Sources and Its Signifi cance for Manichaean Studies ...... 29 Byard Bennett
The Mani Logion: “The purifi cation that was spoken about is that which comes through gnosis” (CMC 84, 9–12) ...... 45 Luigi Cirillo
Manichaeism Among the Uygurs: The Uygur Khan of the Bokug Clan ...... 61 Larry Clark
Manichaean Time-Management: Laymen between Religious and Secular Duties ...... 73 Iris Colditz
Characteristics of Manichaeism in Roman Africa ...... 101 J. Kevin Coyle
Mani’s Account of Other Religions According to the Coptic Synaxeis Codex ...... 115 Wolf-Peter Funk
How We Know the Exact Year the Archegos Left Baghdad ... 129 Cyril Glassé viii contents
An Experiment in Digital Reconstruction with a Manichaean Book Painting: The Work of the Religion Scene (MIK III 4974 recto) ...... 145 Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
The Manichaean Church between Earth and Paradise ...... 169 Claudia Leurini
Medieval Manichaean and Nestorian Remains in the Zayton (Quanzhou) of Marco Polo ...... 181 Samuel N. C. Lieu
Sukhāvatī and the Light-world: Pure Land Elements in the Chinese Manichaean Eulogy of the Light-world ...... 201 Gunner Mikkelsen