Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism : Selected Papers from the International Conference Les femmes dans le manichéisme occidental et oriental held in Paris, University of Paris Sorbonne, 27-28 June 2014 /

Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism : Selected Papers from the International Conference Les femmes dans le manichéisme occidental et oriental held in Paris, University of Paris Sorbonne, 27-28 June 2014 /

The exceptional place women held in Manichaeism, in everyday life or myth, is the object of this book. Relying on firsthand Manichaean texts in several languages and on polemical sources, as well as on iconography, the various papers analyze aspects of women's social engagement by spreading Man...

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Other Authors: Scopello, Madeleine (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; 101
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

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Women and religion > Congresses.
Women and religion.
Women > Religious aspects > Manichaeism > Congresses.

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Preface /
  • Madeleine Scopello
  • Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Chapter 1 Ambivalent Beauty: Divine Transgendering in the 'Seduction of the Archons' and Elsewhere in Manichaean Myth /
  • Jason David BeDuhn
  • Chapitre 2 Trois témoignages polémiques sur l'engagement des femmes dans la diffusion de la religion de Mani. Analyse historique et lexicale /
  • Madeleine Scopello
  • Chapitre 3 La « Mère de la Vie ». Identité et fonctions /
  • Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
  • Chapitre 4 L'usage manichéen du terme Enthymèsis dans les Kephalaia coptes de Berlin /
  • Jean-Daniel Dubois
  • Chapter 5 The Manichaean Women in the Greek and Coptic Letters from Kellis /
  • Majella Franzmann
  • Chapter 6 "You Being for Us Helpers, and Worthy Patrons ..." (P. Kell. Copt. 31). Manichaean Gift-Exchange in the Village of Kellis /
  • Mattias Brand
  • Chapter 7 The (Female) Manichaean Body: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Eastern Manichaean Texts /
  • Adam Benkato
  • Chapter 8 Digital Restoration of an Icon of the Light Maiden Preserved on a Uygur Manichaean Mortuary Banner from 10th-Century Kocho /
  • Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
  • Chapter 9 The Figure of the Virgin of Light in the New Chinese Manichaica /
  • Gábor Kósa
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Index of Modern Authors.