Book chapter
Conflict and Cultural Transmission along the Iranian-Roman Contact Zone: The Manichaean “Law of Zarades”
Quand les dualistes polemiquaient, p.173
Peeters Publishers
12/11/2020
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1q26vfv.13
Abstract
For much of the 20th century, many scholars of ancient Mediterranean religions overlooked Iran as a site of cultural exchange in Late Antiquity, instead positioning its ancient literature, such as the Avesta, as a chronologically and geographically distant source of ‘oriental’ cults in the Roman Empire.1 Manichaean sources, however, demonstrate an active engagement with Iranian traditions as they existed in the third century, within the Sasanian Empire, with ramifications for Manichaean teachings along and beyond its borders. In this chapter, I will analyze recently published evidence from the Chester Beatty Kephalaia codex (= 2Keph.) suggesting that Mani’s activity at the
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- Title: Subtitle
- Conflict and Cultural Transmission along the Iranian-Roman Contact Zone: The Manichaean “Law of Zarades”
- Creators
- Paul C. Dilley
- Contributors
- FLAVIA Ruani (Editor)MIHAELA Timuş (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Quand les dualistes polemiquaient, p.173
- Publisher
- Peeters Publishers
- DOI
- 10.2307/j.ctv1q26vfv.13
- Language
- French
- Date published
- 12/11/2020
- Academic Unit
- Classics; Religious Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies Program
- Record Identifier
- 9984398187602771
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