Mani and Augustine: Collected Essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine

✍ Scribed by Johannes Oort

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 631
• Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 97
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mani and Augustine: collected essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine gathers in one volume contributions on Manichaean scholarship made by the internationally renowned scholar Johannes van Oort. The first part of the book focuses on the Babylonian prophet Mani (216-277) who styled himself an ‘apostle of Jesus Christ’, on Jewish elements in Manichaeism and on ‘human semen eucharist’, eschatology and imagery of Christ as ‘God’s Right Hand’. The second part of the book concentrates on the question to what extent the former ‘auditor’ Augustine became acquainted with Mani’s gnostic world religion and his canonical writings, and explores to what extent Manichaeism had a lasting impact on the most influential church father of the West.

✦ Table of Contents

‎Contents
‎Preface
‎Abbreviations
‎Part 1. Mani and Manichaeism
‎Chapter 1. Mani and Manichaeism: A General Introduction
‎Chapter 2. The Paraclete Mani as the Apostle of Jesus Christ and the Origins of a New Church
‎Chapter 3. Jewish Elements in the Cologne Mani Codex
‎Chapter 4. The Platonist Philosopher Alexander of Lycopolis on Manichaeism
‎Chapter 5. ‘Human Semen Eucharist’ among the Manichaeans? The Testimony of Augustine Reconsidered in Context
‎Chapter 6. Another Case of ‘Human Semen Eucharist’ among the Manichaeans? Notes on the ‘Ceremony of the Fig’ in Cyril of Jerusalem’s Catechesis VI
‎Chapter 7. Manichaean Imagery of Christ as God’s Right Hand
‎Chapter 8. Manichaean Eschatology: Gnostic-Christian Thinking about the Last Things
‎Chapter 9. On the Huguenot Isaac de Beausobre (1659–1738), Founding Father of Manichaean Studies: A Würdigung
‎Part 2. Augustine and Manichaeism
‎Chapter 10. Augustine and Manichaeism: An Introductory Overview
‎Chapter 11. Manichaean Christians in Augustine’s Life and Work
‎Chapter 12. Augustine and the Manichaeans: Their Church, Books, and Impact
‎Chapter 13. Heeding and Hiding Their Particular Knowledge? An Analysis of Augustine’s Dispute with Fortunatus
‎Chapter 14. Augustine’s Praise
‎Chapter 15. The Young Augustine’s Knowledge of Manichaeism: An Analysis of the Confessions and Some Other Relevant Texts
‎Chapter 16. Augustine’s Criticism of Manichaeism: The Case of Confessions 3,10 and Its Implications
‎Chapter 17. ‘Misisti manum tuam ex alto’: Manichaean Imagery of Christ as God’s Hand in Augustine’s Confessions?
‎Chapter 18. God, Memory and Beauty: A ‘Manichaean’ Analysis of Augustine’s Confessions 10,1–38
‎Chapter 19. Sin and Concupiscence in Augustine’s Confessions: An Analytical Overview of the Relevant Texts and Some Conclusions
‎Chapter 20. Secundini Manichaei Epistula: Roman Manichaean ‘Biblical’ Argument in the Age of Augustine
‎Chapter 21. Manichaeism in Augustine’s Sermons: The Case of sermo 182
‎Chapter 22. Reminiscenses of Manichaeism in Augustine’s City of God
‎Chapter 23. Mani and Manichaeism in Augustine’s De haeresibus: An Analysis of haer. 46,1
‎Chapter 24. Was Julian Right? A Re-evaluation of Augustine’s and Mani’s Doctrines of Sexual Concupiscence and the Transmission of Sin
‎Chapter 25. Augustine on Sexual Concupiscence and Original Sin
‎Chapter 26. Manichaean Women in Augustine’s Life and Works
‎Chapter 27. Manichaean Women in a Pseudo-Augustinian Testimony: An Analysis of the North African Testimonium de Manichaeis sectatoribus
‎Part 3. Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine in Reviews
‎A. Reviews on ‘Mani and Manichaeism’
‎Chapter 28. New Directions in Manichaean Research: An Introduction to Manichaica Selecta
‎Chapter 29. Studia Manichaica
‎Chapter 30. Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China
‎Chapter 31. The Argumentation in the Greek-Christian Antimanichaica
‎Chapter 32. Fragments of Mani’s Šābuhragān
‎Chapter 33. Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony
‎Chapter 34. The Manichaean ‘Psalms of the Wanderers’
‎Chapter 35. Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East
‎Chapter 36. The Speech of the Living Soul
‎Chapter 37. Uygur Manichaean Texts and Sogdian Texts from Turfan
‎Chapter 38. Mani’s Psalms
‎Chapter 39. Christian and Manichaean Remains from Quanzhou
‎Chapter 40. The Role of Women in Manichaeism
‎Chapter 41. The Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi
‎B. Reviews on ‘Augustine and Manichaeism’
‎Chapter 42. Augustine’s Manichaean Dilemma in Context
‎Chapter 43. Once Again: Augustine’s Manichaean Dilemma
‎Chapter 44. De moribus ecclesiae catholicae et de moribus Manichaeorum
‎Chapter 45. De utilitate credendi
‎Chapter 46. De Genesi contra Manichaeos
‎Bibliography of Manichaean Sources
‎Index of Manichaean Sources
‎Index of Works of Augustine
‎Index of Biblical Texts
‎Index of Other Ancient Sources
‎Index of Ancient and Modern Names
‎Index of Terms and Concepts