Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire (Paperback)
Samuel N C Lieu; Iain M F Gardner; Samuel N C Lieu
Cambridge University Press
9780521568227
0-521-56822-6
Founded by Mani (c. AD 216-276), a Syrian visionary of Judaeo-Christian ancestry from Persian Mesopotamia, Manichaeism spread rapidly into the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries AD and became.
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one of the most persecuted heresies under Christian Roman emperors. This collection of sources draws from material mostly unknown to English-speaking scholars and students. The religion established missionary cells in Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Rome and included Augustine of Hippo as the most famous of its converts.
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