Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism

Madeleine Scopello, FAHA, Corresponding Fellow of Institut de France, is em. Research director at CNRS and em. Studies director at EPHE, Paris. She has published many articles and books, including Femme, Gnose et Manichéisme (Brill, 2005).

• PrefaceList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Ambivalent Beauty: Divine Transgendering in the ‘Seduction of the Archons’ and Elsewhere in Manichaean MythJason David BeDuhn2 Trois témoignages polémiques sur l’engagement des femmes dans la diffusion de la religion de Mani. Analyse historique et lexicaleMadeleine Scopello3 La « Mère de la Vie ». Identité et fonctionsFernando Bermejo-Rubio4 L’usage manichéen du terme Enthymèsis dans les Kephalaia coptes de BerlinJean-Daniel Dubois5 The Manichaean Women in the Greek and Coptic Letters from KellisMajella Franzmann6 “You Being for Us Helpers, and Worthy Patrons …” (P. Kell. Copt. 31). Manichaean Gift-Exchange in the Village of KellisMattias Brand7 The (Female) Manichaean Body: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Eastern Manichaean TextsAdam Benkato and Sam Langsdale8 Digital Restoration of an Icon of the Light Maiden Preserved on a Uygur Manichaean Mortuary Banner from 10th-Century KochoZsuzsanna Gulácsi9 The Figure of the Virgin of Light in the New Chinese ManichaicaGábor Kósa