Brepols Online Books Other Monographs Collection 2019 - bob2019moot
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A Cosmic Liturgy: Qumran's 364-Day Calendar
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:A Cosmic Liturgy: Qumran's 364-Day Calendar show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: A Cosmic Liturgy: Qumran's 364-Day CalendarThis work shows how the importance of Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday in the 364-day Qumran calendar is based on the Priestly creation narrative in Genesis and the myth of a cosmic covenant established between God and the angels on the first day. The myth of the apostasy of the angels guiding the seven planets was used to explain the discrepancy between the 364-day calendar and observation. The Epistle of Jude makes it possible to situate this work in relation to both Jubilees and the Book of the Watchers and confirms the use of the 364-day calendar in the earliest years of the nascent Church.
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Constructions of Gender in Late Antique Manichaean Cosmological Narrative
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Constructions of Gender in Late Antique Manichaean Cosmological Narrative show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Constructions of Gender in Late Antique Manichaean Cosmological NarrativeManichaeism emerged from Sasanian Persia in the third century CE and flourished in Persia, the Roman Empire, Central Asia and beyond until succumbing to persecution from rival faiths in the eighth to ninth century. Its founder, Mani, claimed to be the final embodiment of a series of prophets sent over time to expound divine wisdom.
This monograph explores the constructions of gender embedded in Mani’s colourful dualist cosmological narrative, in which a series of gendered divinities are in conflict with the demonic beings of the Kingdom of Darkness. The Jewish and Gnostic roots of Mani’s literary constructions of gender are examined in parallel with Sasanian societal expectations. Reconstructions of gender in subsequent Manichaean literature reflect the changing circumstances of the Manichaean community.
As the first major study of gender in Manichaean literature, this monograph draws upon established approaches to the study of gender in late antique religious literature, to present a portrait of a historically maligned and persecuted religious community.
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