{"id":3253,"date":"2016-01-17T15:07:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T11:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.urd.ac.ir\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2016-01-17T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T11:37:38","slug":"urd-publishes-its-first-english-volume-manis-living-gospel-and-the-ewangelyonig-hymns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/urd.ac.ir\/en\/3253\/URD-Publishes-its-First-English-Volume:-Mani\u2019s-Living-Gospel-and-the-Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg-Hymns\/","title":{"rendered":"URD Publishes its First English Volume: Mani\u2019s Living Gospel and the Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg Hymns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mani\u2019s Living Gospel and the Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg Hymns,\u00a0<\/em>by Mohammad Shokri Foumeshi is published by the University of Religions and Denominations, as its first English volume.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The book with the full title of\u00a0\u201cMani\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Living Gospel and the<\/em>\u00a0Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg Hymns: Edition, Reconstruction and Commentary with a Codicological and Textological Approach Based on Manichaean Turfan Fragments in the Berlin Collection<\/em>\u201d,<\/em>\u00a0is actually the doctoral thesis of the author who has graduated from FU in Berlin.<\/p>\n

In Foumeshi,<\/sup>\u00a0s work 25 fragments of Mani\u2019s\u00a0Living Gospel\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg\u00a0<\/em>hymns (The hymn of the\u00a0Gospel<\/em>), discovered in the Turfan Oasis in the early 20th century, preserved in the Berlin Turfan Collection have been studied.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Foumeshi some of the fragments have already been published by other scholars, but only the work presented here aims at finalizing the work begun by others, as he was able to identify new fragments and with their help, was able to complete the fragments available. The combination of the new fragment M5439 with the previously published M17, the former completing the latter, proved to be one of the most important examples for his research on the Middle Persian version of Mani\u2019s\u00a0Gospel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Fumeshi said: “I was able to reconstruct and conclusively join two of the already published fragments of the\u00a0Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg\u00a0<\/em>hymns with the help of two new fragments. I also attempted in the scope of this work, to present an identification of several other fragments that were probably part of Mani\u2019s\u00a0Gospel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He also added: “to accomplish this, I analyzed all the Gnostic-Christian and Iranian sources in depth, and contrasted them with the Manichaean documents, both Iranian and non-Iranian. Thus I was able to present new suggestions and was likewise able to prove or disprove prior assumptions made by others about Mani\u2019s\u00a0Gospel<\/em>. To ensure a deeper understanding of the\u00a0Gospel\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg\u00a0<\/em>hymns, I added a few explanatory chapters and paragraphs to this dissertation that mainly deal with the inner and outer structure of the\u00a0Gospel\u00a0<\/em>and serve, as I hope, in establishing a comprehensive relation between the\u00a0Gospel\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg\u00a0<\/em>hymns.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Foumeshi, further research on the Manichaean sources, e.g. the Greek version of the\u00a0Gospel\u00a0<\/em>and the Coptic\u00a0Synaxeis\u00a0<\/em>on the one hand, and the Greek anti-Manichaean sources and accounts by Muslim writers on the other hand, served to deepen our understanding of the content of the\u00a0Gospel\u00a0<\/em>greatly.<\/p>\n

Foumeshi also stated: “by incorporating a study of these sources into this dissertation, I was able to close some of those gaps that impeded our understanding of the\u00a0Gospel<\/em>. Some important questions pertaining to the alphabetic structure of the chapters of the\u00a0Gospel\u00a0<\/em>and the abecedarian order of the Parthian (Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg<\/em>) hymns, I was able to answer in this work.<\/p>\n

He continued: “for some\u00a0hapax legomena,\u00a0<\/em>I was able to present a reasonable etymology in this dissertation. This doctoral thesis was not only designed to enlarge our understanding of the Turfan texts by presenting the new texts and reconstructions, moreover the new proposed codicological and textological approaches applied to the texts may serve to facilitate or at least simplify further research in this field.<\/p>\n

Mohammd Shokri-Foumeshi is already a scholar of Manichaean as well as Middle Iranian studies and a lecturer at the University of Religions and Denominations.<\/p>\n

Table of contents of the volume is as follows:<\/p>\n

Chapter One: Introduction<\/p>\n

Aim<\/p>\n

Material and Content of the Living Gospel and Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg<\/p>\n

Hymns<\/p>\n

Outline of the Study<\/p>\n

History of Prior Research<\/p>\n

Chapter Two: Mani and his Gospel<\/p>\n

The Living Gospel and Manichaeism<\/p>\n

Position of the Gospel among the Canonical Writings<\/p>\n

Names and Epithets<\/p>\n

Composition Date<\/p>\n

Chapter Order of the Living Gospel<\/p>\n

Chapter Three: Living Gospel and Doubtful Fragment<\/p>\n

Mani and the New Testament<\/p>\n

Sayings of Jesus in Tatian\u2019s \u0394\u03b9\u00e0 \u03c4\u03b5\u03c3\u03c3\u03ac\u03c1\u03c9\u03bd and the Nag Hammadi<\/p>\n

Codices<\/p>\n

Double-edged Sword: Similarities and Differences<\/p>\n

Possible Quotations of the Living Gospel in other Sources: An<\/p>\n

Overview<\/p>\n

The Paraclete as a Main Point of Issue in the Living Gospel<\/p>\n

Not Near but not Far: Jesus\u2019 Sayings and Acts<\/p>\n

Citations of the Living Gospel: Some Tentative Suggestions<\/p>\n

Chapter Four: Manichaean Turfan Texts of the Living Gospel<\/p>\n

Overview and General Concepts<\/p>\n

Turfan Fragments of the Living Gospel: Critical Middle Persian<\/p>\n

Text and its Alternating Sogdian Version<\/p>\n

Text I: M 17<\/p>\n

Text II: M 172\/I\/<\/p>\n

Text III: M 644<\/p>\n

Text IV: A Newly Recognized Small Fragment: M 5439 [= T II D67]<\/p>\n

Text V: An as yet Unpublished Manuscript Page in Sogdian Script<\/p>\n

Return to the Verso Side of M 644<\/p>\n

Unified Middle Persian Text of the Living Gospel<\/p>\n

Commentary<\/p>\n

Content of the Living Gospel According to an Unpublished Parthian Manuscript page<\/p>\n

Chapter Five: Living Gospel Based on the Non-Iranian Manichaean Codices: Structure and Content<\/p>\n

Greek Version<\/p>\n

First Fragment: CMC 65, 23-68, 5<\/p>\n

Second Fragment: CMC 68, 5-69, 8<\/p>\n

Third Fragment: CMC 69, 9-70, 10<\/p>\n

A Textological Commentary<\/p>\n

Coptic Synaxeis<\/p>\n

Chapter Titles<\/p>\n

Plain Text<\/p>\n

First Discourse (logos)<\/p>\n

Other Discourses<\/p>\n

Chapter Six: The Gospel in the Non-Manichaean Heritage<\/p>\n

Accounts of the Greek Anti-Manichaean Writings<\/p>\n

Arabic and Classical New Persian Testimonia<\/p>\n

Testimonies<\/p>\n

Commentary<\/p>\n

Chapter Seven: Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg Hymns<\/p>\n

General Observations<\/p>\n

Abecedarian System in the Parthian Hymns<\/p>\n

Texts<\/p>\n

Text I<\/p>\n

Text II<\/p>\n

Text III<\/p>\n

Text IV<\/p>\n

Chapter Eight: Miscellaneous Scraps: Living Gospel and Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg Hymns<\/p>\n

Fragment I<\/p>\n

Fragment II<\/p>\n

Fragment III<\/p>\n

Fragment IV<\/p>\n

Fragment V<\/p>\n

Chapter Nine: Content of the Living Gospel and the Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg Hymns: An Overview<\/p>\n

Living Gospel<\/p>\n

Ewangely\u014dn\u012bg Hymns<\/p>\n

Living Gospel in Context of the \u2018Hymns of the Gospel\u2019<\/p>\n

Chapter Ten: Glossary of Turfan Texts in this Work<\/p>\n

Middle Persian and Parthian<\/p>\n

Sogdian<\/p>\n

Chapter Eleven: Conclusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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