Monograph by Paul C. Dilley
Cambridge University Press, 2017
In Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity, Paul C. Dilley explores the pe... more In Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity, Paul C. Dilley explores the personal practices and group rituals through which the thoughts of monastic disciples were monitored and trained to purify the mind and help them achieve salvation. Dilley draws widely on the interdisciplinary field of cognitive studies, especially anthropology, in his analysis of key monastic 'cognitive disciplines', such as meditation on scripture, the fear of God, and prayer. In addition, various rituals distinctive to communal monasticism, including entrance procedures, the commemoration of founders, and collective repentance, are given their first extended analysis. Participants engaged in 'heart-work' on their thoughts and emotions, which were understood to reflect the community's spiritual state. This book will be of interest to scholars of early Christianity and the ancient world more generally for its detailed description of communal monastic culture and its innovative methodology.
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The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani, a Coptic papyrus codex preserved at the Chester Beatt... more The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani, a Coptic papyrus codex preserved at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, describes Mani’s mission, teachings and debates with sages in the courts of the Sasanian empire during the reign of Shapur I; with an extended account of his last days and death under Bahram I. The text offers an unprecedented new source for the history of religions in Late Antiquity, including interactions of Manichaean, Zoroastrian, Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist traditions in Iran, remarkably transmitted into the Mediterranean world as part of Manichaean missionary literature. This is the first of four fascicles constituting the editio princeps, based on enhanced digital and multispectral imaging and extended autoptic study of the manuscript.
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The Medinet Madi Library comes of age in this landmark volume as one of the 20th century’s major ... more The Medinet Madi Library comes of age in this landmark volume as one of the 20th century’s major finds of religious manuscripts. Discovered in Egypt’s Fayum region in 1929, these Coptic codices contain a cross-section of the sacred literature of the Manichaean religion. Early work on the collection in the 1930s was cut short by the ravages of the second world war. Recent decades have brought multiple new editorial projects, on which this volume offers a comprehensive set of status reports, as well as individual studies on aspects of the Manichaean religion informed by the library’s contents.
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In Malcolm Choat and Mariachiara Giorda, eds., Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monast... more In Malcolm Choat and Mariachiara Giorda, eds., Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 73-107.
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In Claire Clivaz, Paul Dilley, and David Hamidovic, eds., Ancient Worlds in Digital Culture (Leid... more In Claire Clivaz, Paul Dilley, and David Hamidovic, eds., Ancient Worlds in Digital Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 17-34.
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In Elizabeth Bolman, ed., The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (New Hav... more In Elizabeth Bolman, ed., The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 288-300.
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In Elizabeth Bolman, ed., The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (New Hav... more In Elizabeth Bolman, ed., The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 217-230.
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In Elizabeth Bolman, ed., The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (New Hav... more In Elizabeth Bolman, ed., The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 175-182.
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Tony Burke and Brent Landau, eds., New Testament Apocrypha: More Non-Canonical Scriptures (Grand ... more Tony Burke and Brent Landau, eds., New Testament Apocrypha: More Non-Canonical Scriptures (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016), 183-195.
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In Iain Gardner, Jason BeDuhn, Paul Dilley, Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings: Studies on th... more In Iain Gardner, Jason BeDuhn, Paul Dilley, Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings: Studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 15-51.
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In Iain Gardner, Jason BeDuhn, Paul Dilley, Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings: Studies on th... more In Iain Gardner, Jason BeDuhn, Paul Dilley, Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings: Studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 211-247.
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In Iain Gardner, Jason BeDuhn, Paul Dilley, Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings: Studies on th... more In Iain Gardner, Jason BeDuhn, Paul Dilley, Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings: Studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 101-135.
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