The Kephalaia of the Teacher

Description

The Kephalaia of the Teacher is the most detailed account available to modern scholarship of the teachings of Mani, and of the universal religion that he founded as the final successor to Buddha, Zarathushtra and Jesus. This volume provides the first complete English translation of the Coptic text (c. 400 CE), together with an introduction, commentaries and indices. Topics include the apostleship of Mani, the practices of the Manichaean community, accounts of the heavenly and demonic beings and worlds, as well as discussions of astrology and religious psychology. In Manichaeism many of the gnostic and dualistic themes of early Christianity achieved the status of a world religion, and the subject is the heir to contemporary interest in heterodoxy and the deconstruction of received histories (see the Nag Hammadi codices).

Subjects

Series Statement

• Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies,

Other Editions

• The Kephalaia of the Teacher: the edited Coptic Manichaean texts in translation with commentaryE.J. Brill1995-01-01
• The Kephalaia of the Teacher1995-01-01
• The Kephalaia of the TeacherHardcoverBrill Academic Publishers1995-02-01
• Kephalaia of the TeacherBrill Academic Pub2016-01-01