Funded PhD at Cardiff on Mani[chæism]!
There is a fully funded PhD position available in Late Antiquity at Cardiff University with a 2025 start. The deadline for applications is now less than a week away (31 […]
Tag Archives: Manichaeism
Encyclopædia Iranica Online Now Freely Accessible at Brill
The Encyclopædia Iranica is an invaluable resource for anything Iran- or Persia-related. For followers of this site, that includes Manichaeism, Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism, and of course Persian and Syriac literature, […]
review of Pachoumi, Edwards, Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity
BMCR has posted a review by Mark Roblee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) of the recent volume of Eleni Pachoumi and Mark J. Edwards (eds.), Praying and contemplating in late antiquity: […]
new book: Gardner, The Founder of Manichaeism
Iain Gardner, one of the world’s foremost experts on Manichaeism, has recently published with Cambridge a biography of the prophet of light himself, Mani. Here is the description from the […]
BMCR review of Nongbri, God’s Library
BMCR has posted a lovely review of Brent Nongbri’s fantastic 2018 monograph, God’s Library, copied below. As for me, I couldn’t recommend the book more. For Nongbri’s wonderful blog on […]
In memoriam: Kurt Rudolph (1929-2020)
Another lion in the study of Gnosticism has left us. Rudolph’s majesterial synthesis Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism, was the first book I ever read on the subject. […]
The Mystery of Mani
There is a terrific exhibition of Manichaean manuscripts and artefacts on display right now at the Chester Beatty in Dublin, Ireland, ‘The Mystery of Mani.’ Its website is gorgeous and […]
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