Biblical argument in Manichaean missionary practice : the case of Adimantus and Augustine
| 1. Verfasser: |
Berg, Jacob Albert van den, 1975-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xii, 239 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ;
70 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- Augustine, manichaeism, and Holy Scripture
- Purpose
- Outline of the study
- Relevance
- Adimantus : a manichaean missionary
- Adimantus' identity
- Augustine on Adimantus
- The argument from the Greek abjuration formulae
- The different regions of Adimantus' activity
- The relationship between the names 'Adimantus' and 'Addas
- Adimantus = Pappos?
- Adimantus' biography
- Adimantus' background
- Adimantus as a member of Mani's church
- Adimantus' missionary journeys
- Mani's missionary precepts and Adimantus
- Adimantus' missionary activities
- Provisional conclusions
- Adimantus' disputationes : a reconstruction
- Augustine's acquaintance with the Disputationes
- The years of Augustine's priesthood
- The Manichaean years
- Disputationes refuted in Contra adimantum
- The structure of Contra adimantum
- Double answers
- (parts of) sermons in Contra adimantum
- Contra adimantum : preliminary conclusion
- ^Adimantus' Disputationes in Contra adimantum
- Disputationes disproved in sermons
- Sermons discussing disputations also refuted in Contra adimantum
- Sermons discussing disputations not mentioned in Contra adimantum
- The Disputationes in other works of Augustine
- Contra faustum
- De genesi adversus manichaeos
- De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim
- Adimantus' Disputationes : a reconstruction of its contents
- Analysis of the Disputationes : its method, contents, and purposes
- Bible texts
- Method and limitations
- The Old Testament quotations
- The New Testament quotations
- Exegetical methods of the Disputationes
- The methodological application of 'Antitheses'
- The literal sense
- Did Adimantus ignore the context?
- Contents of the Disputationes
- Subjects of the Disputationes
- Arguments quoted in full
- The form of the Disputationes
- The target group of the Disputationes
- The relevance of the Old Testament to Adimantus
- ^The importance attached to the New Testament
- The literary context of the Disputationes
- The Contra faustum and the capitula
- Writings against the superstitio of the Jews
- Writings against the deceit of the 'semi-Christian'
- Faustus' introduction to his capitula
- Adimantus' fame as 'paraclete'
- Adimantus' criticism of Christ's genealogies
- Adimantus' criticism of positive references to the Hebrew Bible
- The modion
- Adimantus on the Manichaean myth
- The Kephalaia.
