Hymnen und Gebete der Religion des Lichts: Iranische und turkische liturgische Texte der Manichaer Zentralasiens.

The Journal of the American Oriental Society | October 1, 1992| | Copyright

Between the years 1902 and 1914, the Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin sponsored four archaeological expeditions to the Turfan oasis region of Chinese Turkestan. One of the signal surprises of this exploratory work was the recovery of a vast hoard of authentic Manichaean manuscripts written in various Middle Iranian dialects and central Asian languages. Prior to this revolutionary discovery, information about Manichaeism was limited almost exclusively to the suspect reports of hostile heresiologists, both Christian and Muslim, and there was little means of ...

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