CORPUS FONTIUM MANICHAEORUM

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University of Gttingen
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BIBLIA MANICHAICA
Nils Arne Pedersen
Aarhus University
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 CORPUS FONTIUM MANICHAEORUM

Biblia Manichaica I

THE OLD TESTAMENT IN

MANICHAEAN TRADITION

THE SOURCES IN SYRIAC, GREEK, COPTIC,

MIDDLE PERSIAN, PARTHIAN, SOGDIAN,
NEW PERSIAN, AND ARABIC

WITH AN APPENDIX ON
GENERAL REFERENCES TO THE BIBLE

Nils Arne Pedersen

Ren Falkenberg, John Mller Larsen, Claudia Leurini

BREPOLS

FACULTY OF ARTS
AARHUS UNIVERSITY
DENMARK
 CONTENTS

PREFACE ix

INTRODUCTION
Biblia Manichaica: The Use of Biblical
Texts in Manichaean Tradition xi
Syriac Sources xvi
Greek Sources xviii
Coptic Sources xxi
Iranian Sources xxiv
Arabic Sources xxxii
Manichaean Use of the Old Testament xxxiv
Method xli
Entry Example xlv

ABBREVIATIONS xlvi

ENTRY SECTION
The Book of Genesis 1
The Book of Exodus 66
The Book of Leviticus 78
The Book of Numbers 78
The Book of Deuteronomy 79
The Book of Judges 84
The First Book of Samuel 84
The Second Book of Samuel 85
The First Book of Kings 85
The Second Book of Kings 86
The Book of Isaiah 87
The Book of Jeremiah 97
The Book of Ezekiel 100
The Book of Hosea 102
The Book of Jonah 102
The Book of Zephaniah 104
The Book of Haggai 104
The Book of Zechariah 105
The Book of Malachi 105
The Book of Psalms 105
The Book of Job 150
The Book of Proverbs 151
The Book of Daniel 153
The Book of Nehemiah 157
The Second Book of Chronicles 157

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 APPENDIX:
GENERAL REFERENCES TO THE BIBLE
Manichaean Texts 159
Non-Manichaean Texts 161
Ephrem Syrus 161
Titus of Bostra 165
Theodore bar Knai 176
Serapion of Thmuis 176
Epiphanius of Salamis 177
Cyril of Jerusalem 178
Pseudo-Athanasius 179
Renunciation Formula 179
Ab Qurra 179
Qsim ibn Ibrhm 180
Ji 180
Yaqb 180
Ab tim al-Rz 181
Ab Yaqb al-Sijistn 181
History of the
Patriarchs of Alexandria 181
Ibn al-Nadm 182
Abd al-Jabbr 182
Brn 184
Ibn azm 184
Shahrastn 185
asan elebi ibn
Muammad Shh ibn al-Fanr 186
Ibn al-Murta 186

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bible 187
Dictionaries 188
Literature Arranged by
Author and Year of Publication 189
Literature Arranged by Author or Title 231

INDICES
Quotations 233
Bible 233
Parabiblical Texts 242
Manichaean Texts 242
Non-Manichaean Texts 251

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 PREFACE

This initial volume of Biblia Manichaica, the new subseries of the Corpus Fontium
Manichaeorum, aims to document the use of the Old Testament on the basis of
Manichaean and non-Manichaean texts in Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Middle Persian,
Parthian, Sogdian, New Persian, and Arabic.
The volume would never have come about without the support and interest of
institutions and colleagues to whom we wish to express our sincere gratitude.
The project was made possible by a generous grant of DKK 6,6 mio. from the
Danish Research Council for Communication and Culture (FKK) for a collective
project employing three postdocs in 20122015. During this time the Biblia
Manichaica team worked its way through a great mass of sources and organised two
workshops of seminal importance for the project. We offer our thanks to the invited
scholars: The first workshop was held in Aarhus 2425 May 2013 with Prof. Siegfried
Richter. The second workshop took place at Universit degli Studi La Sapienza in
Rome 1718 June 2014 and was supported by the ISMEO, Associazione Internazionale
di Studi sul Mediterraneo e lOriente, thanks to its former president Prof. Marco
Mancini and its present president Prof. Adriano Valerio Rossi. Prof. Fabio Scialpi, Prof.
Peter Nagel, Prof. Ulrich B. Schmid, Prof. Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, as well as Dr.
Enrico Morano and Dr. Timothy Pettipiece accepted our invitation and participated.
In addition we have presented the project in a special session 13 August 2015 at
the XVII. International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, which
was a good opportunity to receive feedback. We thank Prof. Markus Vinzent and other
organizers for this opportunity.
Our special thanks goes to Prof. Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst of the Turfan-
forschung (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) who has assisted
the project from the outset.
We also wish to thank other scholars who have shown interest and supported the
Biblia Manichaica project: Dr. Sebastian Brock for his help on some grammatical issues
in the Syriac texts, Prof. Elio Provasi, Dr. Flavia Ruani, and Assoc. Prof. George Hinge.
Thanks to the staff of the University and State Library in Nobelparken and at
Aarhus University. We are especially grateful to BA Anne Pedersen, who helped
managing and ordering numerous books crucial for the execution of the project, and to
Graduate Student BA Lasse Lvlund Toft for his splendid help in indexing the volume.

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 Thanks also to the School of Culture and Society and the Research Program at the
Department of the Theology for financial support in the final phase of the project.
Last but not least we thank Prof. Samuel N.C. Lieu for his encouragement and
support for the publication of this volume in the series Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum.
Thanks also to the peer reviewers found by Lieu. Their help was important for
correction and improvement of the initial manuscript.
Biblia Manichaica is a collection of entries drawn from numerous excellent
editions. Thus we stand on the shoulders of giants to all of whom we are grateful.
Whenever we quote larger amounts of text we have sought permission in relation to
copyright, and no one has refused our request. Therefore we bring special thanks for
these permissions to the following colleagues: Dr. Iris Colditz, Dr. Wolf-Peter Funk,
Prof. Iain Gardner, Prof. Manfred Hutter, Prof. Samuel N.C. Lieu, Dr. Enrico Morano,
Dr. Christiane Reck, Prof. John C. Reeves, Prof. Siegfried Richter, and Prof. Yutaka
Yoshida. Also thanks to the following periodicals, publishers, and institutions: Annali
dell Istituto Orientale di Napoli, Brill, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, Cambridge
University Press, the Centre for Early Christian Studies (Australian Catholic
University), Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften
zu Berlin, Diagonal-Verlag, Equinox, De Gruyter, Harrassowitz, Hebrew Union College
Press, the Institute of History and Philology (Academia Sinica), Kohlhammer, Reichert,
Springer, and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London) for
permission to quote from Mary Boyces The Manichaean Hymn-Cycles in Parthian
(London 1954).
We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of individuals, type designers, and
institutions to make publicly available the specialized fonts which have been used in
this book: Michael Everson (Evertype) for Antinoou (Greek and Coptic), designed in
collaboration with Prof. Stephen Emmel of the International Association for Coptic
Studies; Dr. George Anton Kiraz and Beth Mardutho for Estrangelo Edessa (Syriac);
and SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) for the Ezra (Hebrew) and Scheherazade
(Arabic) fonts.
We acknowledge all the generous help we have received, but the way we have
carried out ideas, as well as errors and mistakes, remain solely our own responsibility.
Finally, we dedicate the present volume to Prof. Peter Nagel (formerly Halle and
Bonn) who first pointed out the scholarly need of a Biblia Manichaica and generously
shared his idea with Nils Arne Pedersen. For this we thank him sincerely; and also for
his helpful suggestions in regard to understanding and translating selected passages in
the Coptic material.

Aarhus University, Denmark, June 2017

Nils Arne Pedersen, Ren Falkenberg,

John Mller Larsen, Claudia Leurini