By Paul Allan Mirecki, Jason BeDuhn

This can be the second one quantity of scholarly reports in Manichaeism that have been initially awarded sooner than the Manichaean reports crew of the Society of Biblical Literature from 1997 via 1999. Like its predecessor, rising from Darkness: reports within the restoration of Manichaean assets (Brill, 1997), this quantity provides overseas scholarship from best researchers within the becoming box of Manichaean stories. the following the researchers stream from the ongoing foundational paintings of getting better Manichaean assets to the mandatory job of knowing the connection of Manichaeans to the bigger global during which they lived. That dating took numerous specific types, and the contributions during this publication examine these varieties, reading the connection of Manichaeism with diversified cultural, social and non secular traditions.

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Dillon, Akinous: TIre Hf11lIIbooIi of l'ttztonism (Oxford: Clarendon I'n:ss. 1993). 2; f1mllttic Corpus fu. 3-4; Epictetus /Ass. 35-37. n Staab, 4, lines 37-38. 2£ Sec the catena fragmcllt on Romans 7 (Staab, 4,line 34--5,line4) and Comm. Ps. T. DIDYMUS THE BLIND'S KNOWLEDGE OF MA1~ICHAEISM 45 Didymus knew thal lhe Manichaeans associated the inclination toward evil wilh one's fleshly body. e. the enlrapped panicles of Light) as good in natureY Didymus was also aware lhat lhe Manichaeans viewed marilal intercourse as evil because it produced bodies of sinful flesh.

The appetite for lawlessness of all flesh"; 2. "slaughter, with which all flesh is consumed"; 3. "damaging word which harms the Cross of Light... 6). Notice that these paths are not described as individual ways of individual souls, but paths for various deeds and clements. For the Manichaean Auditor, "transrusion" also awaits, heading in its many differcnt directions. Most of the light clements of the Auditor's soul are still enmeshed with dark clements, which means that together these mixed substances will be recycled as Olher lives upon earth, to continue the struggle to separatc one from anotherY ~7 "The Auditors are not all alike, one to another.

See also A. Villey, Alexandrede L)'co~lis. Contrt fa doctrine de Mani [Paris: Ccrf, 1985], 19+ and W Klein, Die Argl/II/enlclion in dmgrianisch-cnristliehen An/imal/iehaica (Wiesbaden: 0. Harrassowitz, 1991), 176-189. 10-13 (PG 39, 1104D9-II05A2); sce Lk. 16: 16 and compare Mt. II: 13. DIDYMUS THE BLIND'S KNOWLEDGE OF MANICHAEISM 47 Augustine, for example, remarked, "For you well know that the J\llanichees move the unlearned by finding fault with the Catholic Faith, and chieny by rending in pieces and tcaring the Old Testamcnl.

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