Frontiers of Faith: The Christian Encounter With Manichaeism in the Acts of Archelaus (NAG HAMMADI AND MANICHAEAN STUDIES, 61) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004161805 ISBN 13: 9789004161801

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2007

Synopsis

Through a systematic analysis of the sources, compositional structure, and apologetic and polemical strategies of the early fourth century Acts of Archelaus (Acta Archelai), this volume explores inter-religious contact, conflict, and comprehension in the encounter between Christianity and Manichaeism.

About this title

About the Author:

Jason BeDuhn, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 1995) in the Comparative Study of Religions, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), and co-editor, with Paul Mirecki, of Emerging from Darkness: Studies on the Recovery of Manichaean Sources (Brill, 1997), and The Light and the Darkness: Studies on Manichaeism and its World (Brill, 2001).
Paul Mirecki, Th.D. (Harvard, 1986) in History of Christian Origins, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the co-author, with Charles W. Hedrick, of The Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel (Polebridge Press, 1999) and co-editor, with Marvin Meyer, of Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (Brill, 1995), and Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World (Brill, 2002).

Review:

"...a very successful achievement which, as the first book-length study of Acts of Archelaus, deserves to be used an discussed in future studies of Manischaeism." - Nils Arne Pedersen, Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2008
"Frontiers of Faith has much to offer students of early Christianity and Manichaeism. [...] The contributors' honest and thoughtful engagement with intellectual and research questions ranging from source and textual criticism to the study of narrative representations and formation of cultural identities commends their collaborative work as a model for furture inquiries." - Richard LIm, Smith College, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 73 (2011)

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9004161805
• ISBN 13: 9789004161801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 178
• Editor: BeDuhn Jason, Mirecki Paul Allan