Mani in Dublin

Siegfried G. Richter, Dr. phil. habil is apl. Prof. in Coptology and research associate at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research at the University of Münster. His main topics are Manichaeism, Christian Nubia, and the Coptic tradition of the New Testament.Charles Horton M.A., was Head of Collections and Curator of the Western Collections of the Chester Beatty Library. His numerous works on the history of the Library and it's collections include: The Earliest Gospels: The Origins and Transmission of the Earliest Christian Gospels - The Contribution of the Chester Beatty Gospel Codex P45.Klaus Ohlhafer, M.A., Egyptologist, is lecturer at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptology, University of Münster, and is preparing a thesis about the Ramesside period.

"Many insightful contributions... in this volume [and] lavish colourplates [...] a wonderful supplement to the intellectually stimulating volume and result in discussions that enrich both the mind and the eye." - Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, in: The Expository Times 127 (3)"Like all the previous collections of proceedings of the International Association of Manichaean Studies, this latest volume greatly advances many aspects of Manichaean studies: history, theology, codicology and iconography, to name but a few." - Samuel N.C. Lieu, in: Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum, 2016

• Charles Horton, MANI - The Lost Religion of Light: The Interpretation of Manichaean Manuscripts for a General AudienceSara Antonietta Luisa Arnoldi, Der Kampf Augustins gegen die Manichäer: Das Beispiel der Schrift De Genesi contra ManichaeosByard Bennett, The Physics of Light, Darkness and Matter in John the Grammarian’s First Homily against the Manichaeans: Early Byzantine Anti-Manichaean Literature as a Window on Controversies in later NeoplatonismFernando Bermejo, Primal Man, Son of God: from Explicit to Implicit Christian Elements in ManichaeismIris Colditz, The Abstract of a Religion or: What is Manichaeism?J. Kevin Coyle (†), Biblical Pseudepigrapha among North African ManichaeansJean-Daniel Dubois, A Possible Liturgical Context for the First Hymn to Jesus in the Chinese Manichaean Hymnbook (col. 6–44)Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Abecedarian Hymns, a Survey of Published Middle Persian and Parthian Manichaean HymnsJorinde Ebert, Individualisation of Redemption in a Manichaean Painting from NingboMajella Franzmann, Kephalaia 55 and the Great Free Woman: Concepts of Seclusion and Public Exhibition in Relation to Women and Female Figures in Manichaean TextsZsuzsanna Gulácsi, Images of Jesus in Manichaean ArtGábor Kósa, Two Manichaean Judgment Scenes― MIK III 4959 V and the Yamato Bunkakan Sandōzu PaintingMa Xiaohe, Remains of the Religion of Light in Xiapu (霞浦) County, Fujian ProvinceGunner Mikkelsen, Recent Research on Chinese Manichaean TextsWolf B. Oerter, Fragen an Kephalaia Kapitel 151 (ed. Funk) – Kephalaia Kapitel 154 (ed. Schmidt/Polotsky) RevisitedNils Arne Pedersen, Syriac Texts in Manichaean Script: New EvidenceChristiane Reck, Sogdian Manichaean Confessional Fragments in Sogdian Script in the Berlin Turfan Collection: the Fragments of the XwāstwānīftFlavia Ruani, The “Seal of the Mouth” in the Anti-Manichaean Polemic of Ephrem the SyrianCristos Theodorou, The Concept of Body and the Body of Christ in the Manichaean Coptic Psalm-BookAgnès Le Tiec, La manifestation de l’image dans l’« Homélie sur la Grande Guerre »Wang Yuanyuan & Lin Wushu, The Last Remains of Manichaeism in Villages of Jinjiang County, ChinaYutaka Yoshida, Southern Chinese Version of Mani’s Picture Book Discovered?