The Old Testament in Manichaean Tradition: The Sources in Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, New Persian, and Arabic (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum: Series Biblia Manichaica)

xlvi, 255 pages ; 31 cm. Source texts in various languages with parallel English translations; introduction and critical matter in English. Summary:"Biblia Manichaica is a reference work citing all biblical quotations and allusions in the Manichaean sources as far as they are available in editions. The first volume covers Manichaean texts in Greek, Coptic, Semitic, and Iranian languages. The reference work includes an introductory chapter on the methodology used for detecting quotations and allusions from the Bible."-- Publisher's website.