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Mani in Dublin Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies Mani in Dublin Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies Editors Johannes van Oort Einar Thomassen Editorial Board j.d. beduhn – a.d. deconick – w.-p. funk i. gardner – s.n.c. lieu – a. marjanen p. nagel – l. painchaud – b.a. pearson n.a. pedersen – s.g. richter – j.m. robinson m. scopello – j.d. turner – g. wurst volume 88 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/nhms Mani in Dublin Selected Papers from the Seventh International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 8–12 September 2009 Edited by Siegfried G. Richter Charles Horton Klaus Ohlhafer leiden | boston Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International Association of Manichaean Studies. International Conference (7th : 2009 : Dublin, Ireland) Mani in Dublin : selected papers from the Seventh International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 8-12 September 2009 / edited by Siegfried G. Richter, Charles Horton, Klaus Ohlhafer. pages cm – (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, ISSN 0929-2470 ; volume 88) Includes index. ISBN 978-90-04-28836-2 (hardback : acid-free paper) – ISBN 978-90-04-28912-3 (e-book) 1. Manichaeism–Congresses. I. Richter, Siegfried, editor. II. Horton, Charles, 1958- III. Ohlhafer, Klaus, 1953- editor. IV. Title. BT1410.I58 2009 299'.932–dc23 2014047086 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 0929-2470 isbn 978-90-04-28836-2 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-28912-3 (e-book) Copyright 2015 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Contents List of Figures ix List of Abbreviations xii List of Contributors xiv Preface xvii 1 mani—The Lost Religion of Light: The Interpretation of Manichaean Manuscripts for a General Audience 1 Charles Horton 2 Der Kampf Augustins gegen die Manichäer: Das Beispiel der Schrift De Genesi contra Manichaeos 7 Sara Antonietta Luisa Arnoldi 3 The Physics of Light, Darkness and Matter in John the Grammarian’s First Homily against the Manichaeans: Early Byzantine Anti-Manichaean Literature as a Window on Controversies in Later Neoplatonism 19 Byard Bennett 4 Primal Man, Son of God: From Explicit to Implicit Christian Elements in Manichaeism 34 Fernando Bermejo 5 The Abstract of a Religion or: What is Manichaeism? 47 Iris Colditz 6 Biblical Pseudepigrapha among North African Manichaeans 71 J. Kevin Coyle (†) 7 A Possible Liturgical Context for the First Hymn to Jesus in the Chinese Manichaean Hymnbook (Col. 6–44) 101 Jean-Daniel Dubois 8 Abecedarian Hymns, a Survey of Published Middle Persian and Parthian Manichaean Hymns 110 Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst vi contents 9 Individualisation of Redemption in a Manichaean Painting from Ningbo 153 Jorinde Ebert 10 Kephalaia 55 and the Great Free Woman: Concepts of Seclusion and Public Exhibition in Relation to Women and Female Figures in Manichaean Texts 161 Majella Franzmann 11 Images of Jesus in Manichaean Art 169 Zsuzsanna Gulácsi 12 Two Manichaean Judgment Scenes—mik iii 4959 v and the Yamato Bunkakan Sandōzu Painting 196 Gábor Kósa 13 Remains of the Religion of Light in Xiapu (霞浦) County, Fujian Province 228 Ma Xiaohe 14 Recent Research on Chinese Manichaean Texts 259 Gunner Mikkelsen 15 Fragen an Kephalaia Kapitel 151 (ed. Funk) – Kephalaia Kapitel 154 (ed. Schmidt/Polotsky) Revisited 273 Wolf B. Oerter 16 Syriac Texts in Manichaean Script: New Evidence 284 Nils Arne Pedersen 17 Sogdian Manichaean Confessional Fragments in Sogdian Script in the Berlin Turfan Collection: The Fragments of the Xwāstwānīft 289 Christiane Reck 18 The “Seal of the Mouth” in the Anti-Manichaean Polemic of Ephrem the Syrian 324 Flavia Ruani 19 The Concept of Body and the Body of Christ in the Manichaean Coptic Psalm-Book 338 Cristos Theodorou contents vii 20 La manifestation de l’image dans l’«Homélie sur la Grande Guerre» 359 Agnès Le Tiec 21 The Last Remains of Manichaeism in Villages of Jinjiang County, China 371 Wang Yuanyuan and Lin Wushu 22 Southern Chinese Version of Mani’s Picture Book Discovered? 389 Yutaka Yoshida Plates 399 Index Locorum 447 Index Rerum 456 List of Figures 1.1 Exhibition entrance area introducing the Manichaean Collection of the Chester Beatty Library 399 1.2 Video zone with the ‘Sod-of-Turf’ exhibit in the foreground 399 1.3 The central area of the exhibition illustrated the spread of Manichaeism and the papyrus-codices from Medinet Madi 400 1.4 The final area ‘A Lost Religion-A Restored History’ outlined the work of academics and conservators in preserving the ancient texts 400 9.1 Chinese Manichaean painting of the 13th century—the Yamato Bunkakan painting 401 9.2 The Yamato Bunkakan painting: The Just Judge 402 9.3a The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Dāenā with her attendants 402 9.3b The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Dāenā with her attendants 403 9.4 The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Fate after death 403 9.5 mik iii 4979 a, b verso 404 9.6 mik iii 6265 and iii 6966 c recto 404 9.7 mik iii 6918 405 9.8 mik iii 4956 b recto[?] 405 9.9 mik iii 6286 side 1[?] 406 9.10 mik iii 6286 side 2[?] 407 9.11 The Yamato Bunkakan painting: inscription 408 9.12a The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Fate after death 408 9.12b The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Fate after death 409 9.13 The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Mani (detail) 409 9.14 The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Mani (detail) 410 9.15 The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Mani flanked by four persons 410 9.16a The Yamato Bunkakan painting: lacquer stand 411 9.16b The Yamato Bunkakan painting: electus (detail) 411 9.17 The Yamato Bunkakan painting: auditor (detail) 412 9.18 mik iii 6368 (detail) 412 9.19 The Yamato Bunkakan painting: auditor (detail) 413 9.20 The Yamato Bunkakan painting: paradisical scene 413 9.21a The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Dāenā and attendants 414 9.21b The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Dāenā and attendants 414 9.22a The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Dāenā and attendants 415 9.22b The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Dāenā and attendants 415 9.23 The Yamato Bunkakan painting: Zhang Siyi and his wife Zhen Xinniang 416 x list of figures 11.0 Map. Phases of Manichaean History (3rd–17th Centuries ce) 417 11.1 Life of Jesus Depicted according to the Diatessaron on Manichaean Folio Fragment (mik iii 4967a recto, detail) before and after Digital Reconstruction (after Gulácsi 2011, Fig. 2) 417 11.2 Analysis of Iconography on the Two Identifiable Scenes from the Life of Jesus (mik iii 4967a recto, detail, shown with digitally enhanced backgrounds and borders) 418 11.3 Reconstruction of an Illuminated Folio (mik iii 4967a) 419 11.4 Enthroned Jesus on a Manichaean Temple Banner (mik iii 6286, side 2[?]) before and after Digital Reconstruction (after Gulácsi 2009, Fig. 13) 420 11.5 Enthroned Light Maiden on a Manichaean Temple Banner (mik iii 6286, side 1[?]) before and after Digital Reconstruction (after Gulácsi 2012, Fig. 5/3) 421 11.6 Double-sided Manichaean Temple Banner Fragment (mik iii 6286), Kocho, 10th century ce, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin 422 11.7 Two Enthroned Jesus Images on a Manichaean Temple Banner (mik iii 6283, sides 1[?] and 2[?], after Le Coq 1913 and Gulácsi 2001) 423 11.8 Double-sided Manichaean Temple Banner Fragment (mik iii 6283), Kocho, 10th century ce, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin 424 11.9 Jesus among Primary Prophets on a Manichaean Hanging Scroll Fragment (lost, unnumbered item), Kocho, 10th century, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin 425 11.10 Shakyamuni among Primary Prophets on Manichaean Handscroll Fragment (mik iii 4947 & iii5d), Kocho, 10th century, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin 426 11.11 Jesus with the Cross of Light on a Manichaean Hanging Scroll, Southern China, 12th–13th century, Seiun-ji, Kofu, Japan 427 12.1 Manichaean book illustration (fragment), colours and gold on paper, 11×8,2cm, Object No. mik iii 4959 v 428 12.2 The Yamato Bunkakan silk painting (Sandōzu) ca. 13–14th c. Complete hanging scroll, colours on silk, 142×59,2cm 429 12.2a Clerks in red and green robes in r4 of the Sandōzu (detail) 430 12.2b Similarity of the brown-skinned persons. Sandōzu (detail) 430 12.2c Dedicational inscription in r4 positioned between the Daēnā group and the white-skinned person group (detail) 431 12.3 Lu Xinzhong (studio of): The Seventh King of Hell (detail), Clerks in red and green robes. 13th century. Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk, 85×50,5cm, Object No. 1962–14 432 12.3a Lu Xinzhong (studio of): The Seventh King of Hell (detail), Female sinner being judged and tortured 13th century. Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk, 85×50,5cm, Object No. 1962–14 433 list of figures xi 17.1 So 10650(8) ~ So 10085+So 13910+So 20186 (text
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