Frontiers of Faith: The Christian Encounter with Manichaeism in the Acts of Archelaus (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies)

Frontiers of Faith: The Christian Encounter with Manichaeism in the Acts of Archelaus......Page 4
Contents
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Jason BeDuhn and Paul Mirecki: Preface......Page 8
1. Jason BeDuhn and Paul Mirecki: Placing the Acts of Archelaus......Page 10
The Text of the Acta Archelai......Page 17
The AA’s Imagined Setting of the Encounter......Page 18
The Structure and Sources of the Acts of Archelaus......Page 23
Introducing the Antagonists......Page 32
The First Encounter......Page 34
The Second Encounter......Page 36
Conclusions......Page 38
APPENDIX: Distribution of interventions in the first encounter between Mani and Archelaus (15–42)......Page 40
Distribution of interventions in the second encounter between Mani and Archelaus (53–65)......Page 41
3. Iain Gardner: Mani's Letter to Marcellus: Fact and Fiction in the Acta Archelai Revisited......Page 42
Structure......Page 45
Purpose......Page 48
Conventions and Terminology......Page 49
Scriptural quotations......Page 51
Doctrine......Page 53
Conclusions......Page 56
A False Witness? Re-reading Turbo’s Account in the Acta Archelai......Page 58
The Manichaean Myth: the Cosmic War and Its Ending......Page 62
Choices in the Narrative Maze......Page 64
Tracing the Logic of the Ending......Page 67
Coda......Page 74
5. J. Kevin Coyle: A Clash of Portraits: Contrasts between Archelaus and Mani in the Acta Archelai......Page 76
6. Jason BeDuhn: A War of Words: Intertextuality and the Struggle over the Legacy of Christ in the Acta Archelai......Page 86
A Tale of Two Christianities......Page 87
The AA’s Sources on Manichaean Biblical Interpretation......Page 89
Mani’s biblical quotations......Page 97
Mani’s Bible......Page 101
Mani’s Bible-based Authority......Page 103
Mani’s Biblically Justi ed Dualism......Page 104
Mani’s Biblical Christology......Page 106
Mani’s Biblical Hermeneutics......Page 107
APPENDIX: The proposed larger Letter to Marcellus......Page 111
7. Kevin Kaatz: The Light and the Darkness: The Two Natures, Free Will, and the Scriptural Evidence in the Acta Archelai......Page 112
A Short History of the One Nature/Two Nature Argument......Page 115
The Two Nature Argument in the Acta Archelai......Page 117
Scriptural Basis for the Two Natures......Page 119
Conclusion......Page 126
8. Timothy Pettipiece: "Et sicut rex . . .": Competing Ideas of Kingship in the Anti-Manichaean Acta Archelai......Page 128
Kingship According to Archelaus......Page 129
Manichaean Views of Kingship......Page 132
Diverse Early Christian Responses to Kingship......Page 135
Implications and Conclusions......Page 138
Textual and Source Issues in AA 44–45......Page 140
Adda’s Antitheses as a Possible Source for AA 44–45......Page 145
The Character of Manichaean Biblical Antitheses in the AA......Page 151
Strategies of Christian Anti-antitheses Argument in the AA......Page 155
History of Research on Acta Archelai 63.5–6......Page 158
Primary comparative Greek instructional text in PGM I. 42–195: “The spell of Pnouthis, the sacred scribe, for acquiring an [aerial spirit] assistant”......Page 160
Parallels to Acta Archelai 63.5–6 in PGM I. 42–195 and varia......Page 161
The Polemical Strategy of Hegemonius and the Ascents of Mani in the Parthian Texts......Page 163
The introduction to the cosmogonical fragment (AA 67.4–6)......Page 166
The cosmogonical fragment (AA 67.7–11)......Page 168
The origin, identity, and authenticity of the barbarian cosmogony......Page 170
APPENDIX......Page 175
Bibliography......Page 176
Table of Biblical References......Page 182
General Index......Page 184
Index of Modern Authors......Page 186
Back Matter......Page 188