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Jason BeDuhn is Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions at Northern Arizona University and President of the International Association of Manichaean Studies. His major publications include The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual (Johns Hopkins, 2000), Augustine’s Manichaean Dilemma (Pennsylvania, 2010 & 2013), and The First New Testament: Marcion’s Scriptural Canon (Polebridge, 2012). Paul Dilley is Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions at the University of Iowa, and a Senior Fellow of the Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. In addition to his publications on Manichaeism, he is the author of Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity: Cognition and Discipline (Cambridge, 2017) and co-editor of Linked Open Data for the Ancient World: Structures, Practices, Prospects (ISAW Papers, 2021), among other volumes.Iain Gardner is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. His recent publications include The Founder of Manichaeism (Cambridge University Press 2020) and Mani’s Epistles (Kohlhammer 2022).

• List of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsIntroductionJason BeDuhn, Paul Dilley and Iain GardnerPart 1: Reports on Editorial Work on the Medinet Madi Library1 Towards an Edition of the Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex: Another Progress ReportWolf-Peter Funk†2 Comments on a Possible Second Text in the Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis CodexPaul Mirecki3 The Chester Beatty Kephalaia: Report on Work in ProgressPaul Dilley4 Report on the Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi: The Epistles (P. Berol. Inv. 15998)Iain Gardner5 The Publication of Psalm Book Part 1, Plates 1 to 128Siegfried G. RichterPart 2: Manichaean Studies Based in the Medinet Madi Library6 Cutting Down the Bitter Tree: A Motif with Biblical Roots in the First Part of the Manichaean Psalm Book (IAMS Presidential Address)Nils Arne Pedersen7 Devotional and Didactic Pantheons in Manichaeism: Kellis, Medinet Madi, Turfan, DunhuangJason David BeDuhn8 (No) Providence among the Manichaeans? Divine Care in the Kephalaia of the TeacherDylan M. Burns9 Mani’s Ascendancy: Revelatory Events and the Emergence of a New Religious Movement in AntiquityApril D. DeConick10 Remarks about Manichaean ChristologyJean-Daniel Dubois11 Tracing Themes from Medinet Madi to China: Changes and Core Teaching in the Development of Manichaeism as a World ReligionMajella Franzmann12 Choosing the 12 and the 72: A Diatessaronic Theme in the Dublin Volume of the Coptic Manichaean Kephalaia CodicesZsuzsanna Gulácsi13 “We Rejoice All of Us as We See Your Bēma” (Psalm Book 229, 24.19): Visualization and the Art of Memory in the Coptic Manichaean PsalmsEduard Iricinschi14 A Robber in Paradise: Luke 23:43 in Manichaean and Anti-Manichaean ExegesisFlavia Ruani15 Re-reading Manichaean Cosmogonic Fragments (M1001–1032, 9000)Mihaela TimușIndex of Modern Authors and ResearchersIndex of Ancient Names, Texts, and Subjects