Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings

Iain Gardner, Ph.D. (Manchaster University 1983), is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Sydney. He has published many works on both Manichaeism and Coptic papyrology, including (with Malcolm Choat) A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power (Brepols 2013).Jason BeDuhn, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 1995), is Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions at Northern Arizona University. His previous publications include The Manichaean Body (Johns Hopkins, 2000) and Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, vols. 1 and 2 (University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2013).Paul Dilley, Ph.D. (Yale University, 2008), is Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, with a joint appointment in Religious Studies and Classics. He is a specialist in Early Christianity, including Coptic, and has published on monasticism, apocrypha, and Manichaeism.

• Iain Gardner, An Introduction to the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex PART A: Studies on the Manichaean KephalaiaPaul Dilley, Mani’s Wisdom at the Court of the Persian Kings: The Genre and Context of the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Jason David BeDuhn, Parallels between Coptic and Iranian Kephalaia: Goundesh and the King of Touran Iain Gardner, The Final Ten ChaptersPART B: New Sources from the Chester Beatty CodexPaul Dilley, Also Schrieb Zarathustra? Mani as Interpreter of the ‘Law of Zarades’ Jason David BeDuhn, Iranian Epic in the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Iain Gardner, Mani’s Last Days. Map and Table of Place NamesPART C: Manichaeism and the History of ReligionsPaul Dilley, ‘Hell Exists, and We have Seen the Place Where It Is’: Rapture and Religious Competition in Sasanian Iran Jason David BeDuhn, Mani and the Crystallization of the Concept of ‘Religion’ in Third Century Iran

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