Manichaeism and Its Legacy

✍ Scribed by J. Kevin Coyle

• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 371
• Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 69
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume reproduces nineteen chapters and articles published between 1991 through 2008, on Manichaeism, and its contacts with Augustine of Hippo, its most famous convert and also best-known adversary. The contents are divided into four parts: perceptions of Mani within the Roman Empire, select aspects of Manichaean thought, women in Manichaeism, and Manichaeism and Augustine. Though these chapters and articles reproduce their originals, adjustments have been made to include cross-referencing, newer editions, and the like, all with the aim of rendering them more accessible to a new readership among those who follow the fortunes of Mani’s religion in the Roman Empire and/or the “Manichaean” aspects of Augustine of Hippo.

✦ Table of Contents

Manichaeism and Its Legacy......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Location of Original Publications......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 24
Part I: Mani......Page 26
‘Manichaean’......Page 28
‘Manichaean’ = ‘Persian’......Page 29
‘Manichaean’ = ‘Insane’......Page 35
Once novel, now unoriginal......Page 37
Heretical, but not Christian......Page 38
Illegal and unclean......Page 43
Conclusions......Page 47
2. Hesitant and Ignorant: The Portrayal of Mani in the Acts of Archelaus......Page 50
Conclusions......Page 57
Appendix......Page 60
3. A Clash of Portraits: Contrasts between Archelaus and Mani in the Acta Archelai......Page 62
Part II: Manichaean Themes......Page 74
Introduction......Page 76
The objective good: the aesthetically pleasing......Page 78
The moral good......Page 84
Conclusions......Page 88
5. Good Tree, Bad Tree: The Matthean/Lukan Paradigm in Manichaeism and Its Opponents......Page 90
1. Manichaeism, the Canon, and the Synoptic ‘Trees’......Page 93
2. Coptic Manichaean Sources......Page 95
3. Greek sources from Manichaeism and its Adversaries......Page 100
5. Conclusions......Page 112
6. Hands and Imposition of Hands in Manichaeism......Page 114
The hands and ‘the right’......Page 116
Imposition of the hand......Page 119
Conclusion......Page 124
The notion of healing in Manichaeism......Page 126
Healing and sickness......Page 127
BeDuhn’s thesis......Page 130
Medical discourse and the body......Page 131
Celestial ‘physicians’......Page 136
Elect and Hearers......Page 139
Mani the physician......Page 141
Introduction: Biblical apocrypha in Manichaeism......Page 148
The Gospel of Thomas and Manichaeism......Page 151
Other possible connections......Page 158
Conclusion......Page 162
Part III: Women in Manichaeism......Page 164
9. Prolegomena to a Study of Women in Manichaeism......Page 166
1. What is known......Page 168
2. Hermeneutical considerations......Page 172
3. Future avenues of investigation......Page 176
10. Mary Magdalene in Manichaeism?......Page 180
Manichaeism and the New Testament......Page 198
The ‘Marys’ of Manichaeism......Page 199
Clarifications......Page 208
Manichaeism on the origin of the human couple......Page 212
Manichaeism’s spread westward......Page 215
Women’s attraction to the movement......Page 218
Women and the propagation of Manichaeism......Page 219
New Testament and pseudepigraphical references......Page 225
Prominent women of the Manichaean community......Page 228
Conclusion......Page 229
Part IV: Manichaeism and Augustine of Hippo......Page 232
13. Augustin et le manichéisme......Page 234
2. Premier traité De moribus......Page 235
3. Deuxième traité De moribus......Page 241
4. Conclusion......Page 243
I. Introduction: le récit des Révisions......Page 246
1. «Après mon baptême, tandis que j’étais à Rome...»......Page 247
2. «Je ne pus supporter en silence...»......Page 248
3. «J’écrivis deux livres...»......Page 250
II. Lecture de l’ouvrage......Page 251
1. Section ‘philosophie’ (3,4–7,12)......Page 252
a. Le thème de Dieu......Page 254
2. Section ‘Bible’ (8,13–30,64)......Page 255
b. Le thème des vertus......Page 263
c. Le thème de la communauté ecclésiale......Page 267
3. Section ‘ascèse’ (31,65–35,80)......Page 268
III. Conclusions......Page 271
IV. Un dernier bilan......Page 273
15. What Did Augustine Know about Manichaeism When He Wrote His Two Treatises De moribus?......Page 276
16. God's Place in Augustine's Anti-Manichaean Polemic......Page 290
Manichaean cosmogony......Page 291
The orientation of Augustine’s early works......Page 294
God and evil......Page 297
Conclusion......Page 307
17. Augustine and Manichaeism on Contraception......Page 308
1. De moribus Manichaeorum......Page 310
2. Contra Faustum......Page 314
3. Contra Secundinum......Page 316
4. De haeresibus......Page 318
Conclusion......Page 319
18. Revisiting the Adversary in Augustine's Contra aduersarium legis et prophetarum......Page 322
19. Saint Augustine's Manichaean Legacy......Page 332
Manichaeism in Brief......Page 333
What Was the Manichaeism Augustine Knew?......Page 336
Once a Manichaean?......Page 338
What Did Augustine Really Know About Manichaeism?......Page 341
Once a Manichaean, always a Manichaean?......Page 349
Conclusion......Page 352
Select Bibliography......Page 354
Indexes......Page 362

✦ Subjects

Религиоведение;Религиоведение христианства;История христианства;Религиоведение раннего христианства;Гностицизм;