Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West: Proceedings of the Fribourg-Utrecht Symposium of the International Association of Manichaean Studies

Johannes van Oort, Otto Wermelinger, and Gregor Wurst, editors

Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West: Proceedings of the Fribourg-Utrecht Symposium of the International Association of Manichaean Studies

Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 49

Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. x + 337.

This volume contains twenty-two papers, in German, French, and English, presented at a symposium held at Fribourg in 1998. The volume is remarkable for its focus on what shape Manichaean teachings assumed in the Latin speaking world, a shape that may be markedly different from that of Manichaeism as found in Mesopotamia and Iran and in Central Asia. Samuel Lieu provides an important discussion on the criteria used for the Dictionary of Manichaean Texts, of which the first volume, published by Brepols in 1999, is dedicated to texts from the Roman Empire in Syriac, Greek, Coptic, and Latin. Markus Stein previews his upcoming edition and translation of the Codex from Tebessa. Eugenia Smagina investigates...