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The wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary work of Iain Gardner over a career spanning forty-five years (thus far) inspires this collection of sixteen contributions on late antique religious culture at the intersections of text, language, papyrology, archaeology, and art history. The Manichaean religion offers the context for twelve chapters, but in these and others the topics range through Coptic and Middle Iranian language and text, Egyptian magic and ceramics, Armenian Christianity, Central Asian art, scribal practices, hymnology, theology, heresiology, zoology, and the material remains of life in the Dakhleh oasis city of Kellis.
Contributors are: Giselle Bader, Roger Bagnall, Jason BeDuhn, Gillian Bowen, Doru Costache, Paul Dilley, Korshi Dosoo, Jean-Daniel Dubois, Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Colin Hope, Jay Johnston, Samuel N. C. Lieu, Enrico Morano, Timothy Pettipiece, Madeleine Scopello, Nicholas Sims-Williams and Garry Trompf.
Contributors are: Giselle Bader, Roger Bagnall, Jason BeDuhn, Gillian Bowen, Doru Costache, Paul Dilley, Korshi Dosoo, Jean-Daniel Dubois, Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Colin Hope, Jay Johnston, Samuel N. C. Lieu, Enrico Morano, Timothy Pettipiece, Madeleine Scopello, Nicholas Sims-Williams and Garry Trompf.
Price: $233.00
Pages: 420
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
Publication Date:
23 September 2026
ISBN: 9789004766631
Format: Hardcover
Jason BeDuhn, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions, Northern Arizona University. A specialist in the religions of late antiquity, he has published extensively on Manichaeism from North Africa to Central Asia, including The Manichaean Body in Discipline and Ritual (2000), Augustine’s Manichaean Dilemma, Parts 1 & 2 (2010, 2013), and Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings (with I. Gardner and P. Dilley, 2015).
Malcolm Choat, Ph.D. (2000), is Professor of History at Macquarie University in Sydney, where he researches Christianity and monasticism in late antique Egypt, scribal practice in Greek and Coptic documentary papyri, forgeries and discourse of authenticity, and the ethics of studying the ancient world. Besides numerous articles in these subjects, he is the author of Belief and Cult in Fourth Century Papyri (2006) and A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power (with I. Gardner 2013).
Jay Johnston FAHA, PhD (2005) is Honorary Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. A cross-disciplinary specialist she publishes monographs and articles on aesthetics, esoteric traditions, biocultural knowledge and vernacular belief systems, including Drawing Spirit: The Role of Images and Design in the Magical Practice of Late Antiquity (with I. Gardner 2023).
Malcolm Choat, Ph.D. (2000), is Professor of History at Macquarie University in Sydney, where he researches Christianity and monasticism in late antique Egypt, scribal practice in Greek and Coptic documentary papyri, forgeries and discourse of authenticity, and the ethics of studying the ancient world. Besides numerous articles in these subjects, he is the author of Belief and Cult in Fourth Century Papyri (2006) and A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power (with I. Gardner 2013).
Jay Johnston FAHA, PhD (2005) is Honorary Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. A cross-disciplinary specialist she publishes monographs and articles on aesthetics, esoteric traditions, biocultural knowledge and vernacular belief systems, including Drawing Spirit: The Role of Images and Design in the Magical Practice of Late Antiquity (with I. Gardner 2023).