Pentadic redaction in the Manichaean Kephalaia

Pentadic redaction in the Manichaean Kephalaia / by Timothy Pettipiece.

This study identifies a significant redactional tendency whereby the compilers of the ""Kephalaia"" sought to clarify ambiguities in a oecanonicala Manichaean tradition by means of five-part numerical series, thereby challenging the conventional wisdom of Manichaean scholarship a...

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Main Author: Pettipiece, Timothy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 66.
Subjects:
Mani.
Kephalaia.
Kephalaia
Manichaeism.
Symbolism of numbers.
Five (The number) in literature.
number symbolism.
RELIGION > Gnosticism.
Five (The number) in literature
Manichaeism
Symbolism of numbers
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Summary:This study identifies a significant redactional tendency whereby the compilers of the ""Kephalaia"" sought to clarify ambiguities in a oecanonicala Manichaean tradition by means of five-part numerical series, thereby challenging the conventional wisdom of Manichaean scholarship about the consistency of Manichaean doctrine.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 242 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and indexes.
ISBN:9789047427827
9047427823
9789004174368
9004174362
1282401017
9781282401013
9786612401015
661240101X
ISSN:0929-2470 ;
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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