SYRIAC SOURCES

TEXTS AND EDITIONS

Abbeloos, J. B. & TH. J. Lamy (eds.), Gregorii Barhebraei Chronicon ecclesiasticum quod e codice Musei britannici descriptum conjuncta opera, I-III, Lovanii: C. Peeters, 1872-77.

Beck, E. ed. Ephrem: Hymnen contra Haereses. CSCO 169-170. Louvain, 1957. 

de Lagarde, Paul A., ed. Titi Bostreni contra manichaeos libri quatuor syriace. Berlin: C. Schultze, 1859.

Mitchell, C.W. S. Ephraim's Prose Refutations of Mani, Marcion, and Bardaisan I-II. London: Williams and Northgate, 1912-1921.

Overbeck, J. J. ed. S. Ephraemi Syri, Rabulae episcopi Edesseni, Balaei aliorumque Opera selecta e codicibus syriacis manuscriptis ini museo Britannico et bibliotheca Bodleiana asservatis primus. Oxford, 1865. 

Pedersen, Nils A, John M. Larsen, Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, and Myriam Krutzsch, Manichaean Texts in Syriac: First Editions, New Editions and Studies (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013).

Poirier, Paul-Hubert and Roman, Agathe and Schmidt, Thomas S. and Crégheur, Eric and Declerck, José H. and Declerck, José H. Titus Bostrensis. Contra Manichaeos libri IV graece et Syriace cum excerptis e Sacris Parallelis Iohanni Damasceno attributis. Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 82. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.

Reeves, J. C. "Manichaean Citations from the Prose Refutations of Ephrem." In Mirecki and BeDuhn. Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources. NHMS 43. Leiden: Brill, 1997, 217-88.

Roman, Agathe and Schmidt, Thomas S. and Poirier, Paul-Hubert. Titus de Bostra. Contre les manichéens. Corpus Christianorum in Translation 21. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015


STUDIES

Aland, Barbara. ''Mani und Bardesanes – zur Entstehung des manichäischen Systems'.' Pages 123-143 in Synkretismus im syrisch-persischen Kulturgebiet: Bericht über ein Symposion in Rheinhausen bei Göttingen in der Zeit vom 4. bis 8. Oktober 1971. Dietrich, Albert, ed. Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse III.96. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975.

Allotte de la Fuÿe, François-Maurice. ''Une coupe magique en écriture manichéenne.'' Comptes-rendus des séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris 68:5 (1925): 388-399.

Alpi, Frédéric Nicolas. ''Les manichéens et le manichéisme dans les Homélies Cathédrales de Sévère d’Antioche (512–518): observations sur l’HC 123 et sur quelques passages négligés.'' ARAM 16:2 (2004): 233-243.

Baumstark, Anton ''Der Text der Mani-Zitate in der syrischen Übersetzung des Titus von Bostra.'' Oriens Christianus 3.6 (1931): 23-42.

Beck, E. Ephräms Polemik gegen Mani und die Manichäer im Rahmen der zeitgenössischen griechischen Polemik und der des Augustinus. Louvain,1978

Bierbaums, M. "Ephrem the Syrian on 'Freedom of Will' in Manichaeism (Pr. II-XXVIII: first discourse to Hypatios): A Reference to Manichaean Common Property?" ARAM 16 (2004): 263-277.

Bou Mansour, Tanios. ''La défense éphrémienne de la liberté contre les doctrines marcionite, bardesanite et manichéenne.'' Orientalia Christiana Periodica 50:2 (1984): 331-346.

Bundy, David. ''Ephrem’s Critique of Mani: The Limits of Knowledge and the Nature of Language.'' Pages 289-298 in Gnosticisme et monde hellénistique. Actes du Colloque de Louvain-la-Neuve (11–14 mars 1980). Ries, Julien and Janssens, Yvonne and Sevrin, Jean-Marie, ed. Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 27. Louvain-la-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste, 1982.

Bundy, David. ''Revising the Diatessaron against the Manichaeans: Ephrem of Syria on John 1:4.'' ARAM 5 (1993): 65-74.

Burkitt, F. C., The Religion of the Manichees (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925). 

Clackson, S, Erica Hunter, Samuel N. Lieu, and Mark Vermes, Dictionary of Manichaean Texts: (Texts in Syriac, Greek, Coptic and Latin) (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998).

Contini, Riccardo. ''Hypothèses sur l’araméen manichéen.'' Annali di Ca’ Foscari 34:3 (1995): 65-107.

Cumont, Franz. Recherches sur le manichéisme. 1: La cosmogonie manichéenne d’après Théodore bar Khôni. Brussels: Lamertin, 1908.

De Blois, François, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Erica Hunter, and Dieter Taillieu, Dictionary of Manichaean Texts Vol. II, Texts from Iraq and Iran (Syriac, Arabic, Persian and Zoroastrian Middle Persian (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006).

Drijvers, Han J.W. ''Mani und Bardaiṣan. Ein Beitrag zur Vorgeschichte des Manichäismus.'' Pages 459-469 in Mélanges d’histoire des religions offerts à Henri-Charles Puech. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1974.

Drijvers, Han J.W. ''Odes of Solomon and Psalms of Mani: Christians and Manichaeans in Third-Century Syria.'' Pages 117-130 in Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions Presented to Gilles Quispel on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Van den Broek, Roelof and Vermaseren, Maarten J., eds. Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l’Empire romain 91. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981.

Drijvers, Han J.W. ''Addai und Mani: Christentum und Manichäismus im Dritten Jahrhundert in Syrien." Pages 171-185 in III Symposium Syriacum, 1980: Les contacts du monde syriaque avec les autres cultures (Goslar 7–11 Septembre 1980). Lavenant, René, ed. Orientalia Christiana Analecta 221. Roma: Pontificium Institutum Studiorum Orientalium, 1983.

Dubois, Jean-Daniel and Poirier, Paul-Hubert. ''“Le Christ est le cinquième élément” (Titus de Bostra, Contra Manichaeos IV, 116). Note de christologie manichéenne.'' Pages 39-46 in Gnostica et Manichaica: Festschrift für Aloïs van Tongerloo Anläßlich des 60. Geburtstages überreicht von Kollegen, Freunden und Schülern. Knüppel, Michael and Cirillo, Luigi, eds. Studies in Oriental Religions 65. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012.

Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond. ''Aramaic in the Manichaean Turfan Texts.'' Pages 59-74 in Iranian Languages and Texts from Iran and Turan: Ronald E. Emmerick Memorial Volume. Macuch, Maria and Maggi, Mauro and Sundermann, Werner, eds. Iranica 13. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007.

Franzmann, Majella. ''The Syriac-Coptic Bilinguals from Ismant al-Kharab (Roman Kellis): Translation Process and Manichaean Missionary Practice.'' Pages 115-122 in Il Manicheismo: Nuove Prospettive della Richerca. Atti del Quinto Congresso Internazionale di Studi sul Manicheismo (Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”; Napoli, 2-8 Settembre 2001). Van Tongerloo, Aloïs and Cirillo, Luigi, eds. Manichaean Studies 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.

Gardner, Iain ''The Coptic and Syriac, Christian and Manichaean Texts Recovered from Ismant el-Kharab: An Update on New Discoveries and Significant Research since First Publication.'' Pages 395-402 in A Tribute to Anthony J. Mills after Forty Years of Research in Dakhleh Oasis: Proceedings of the Ninth International Dakhleh Oasis Project Conference. Bowen, Gillian E. and Hope, Colin A. eds. The Oasis Papers 9. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2019.

Gorea, Maria. ''Coupes magiques syriaques et manichéennes en provenance de Mésopotamie.'' Pages 107-116 in Les inscriptions syriaques. Briquel-Chatonnet, Françoise and Debié, Muriel and Desreumaux, Alain, eds. Études syriaques 1. Paris: Geuthner, 2004.

Griffith, Sidney H. ''Christianity in Edessa and the Syriac-Speaking World: Mani, Bar Daysan, and Ephrem; the Struggle for Allegiance on the Aramean Frontier.'' Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 2 (2002): 5-20.

Griffith, Sidney H. "The thorn among the tares: Mani and Manichaeism in the works of St. Ephraem the Syrian." In Maurice F. Wiles and Edward J.Yarnold (eds.), Studia Patristica 35: Papers presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1999. Leuven : Peeters, 2001, 395-427.

Horn, Cornelia B. ''Lines of Transmission between Apocryphal Traditions in the Syriac-Speaking World, Manichaeism, and the Rise of Islam: The Case of the Acts of John.'' Parole de l’Orient 35 (2010): 337-355.

Hunter, Erica C.D. ''Theodore bar Koni’s Liber ScholiorumXI Reconsidered.'', Pages 143-154 in Les voyages dans les civilisations orientales / Travel in the Oriental Civilizations. Cannuyer, Christian and Ries, Julien and van Tongerloo, Aloïs, eds. Acta Orientalia Belgica 11. Bruxelles / Louvain-la-Neuve / Leuven: Société Belge d’Études Orientales, 1998.

Hunter, Erica C.D. ''Theodore bar Kônî and the Manichaeans.'' Pages 167-178 in Il Manicheismo: Nuove Prospettive della Richerca. Atti del Quinto Congresso Internazionale di Studi sul Manicheismo (Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”; Napoli, 2-8 Settembre 2001). Van Tongerloo, Aloïs and Cirillo, Luigi, eds. Manichaean Studies 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.

Hutter, Manfred. ''Die Bedeutung des syrischen Christentums für die gnostische Religion Manis." Pages 261-272 in Religionsgeschichte Syriens. Von der Frühzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Haider, Peter W. and Hutter, Manfred and Kreuzer, Siegfried, eds. Stuttgart / Berlin / Köln: W. Kohlhammer, 1996.

Jones, Frederick Stanley. ''The Astrological Trajectory in Ancient Syriac-Speaking Christianity (Elchasai, Bardaisan, and Mani).'' Pages 183-200 in Atti del Terzo Congresso Internazionale di Studi “Manicheismo e Oriente Cristiano Antico”. Arcavacata di Rende – Amantea, 31 agosto – 5 settembre 1993. Cirillo, Luigi and van Tongerloo, Alois, eds. Manichaean Studies 3. Louvain / Neapol: Brepols, 1997.

Jullien, Christelle and Jullien, Florence. Aux origines de l’église de Perse: les Actes de Mar Mari. CSCO 604, Subs. 114. Louvain: Peeters, 2003.

Khosroyev, Alexandr L. ''Manichäismus: eine Art persisches Christentum? Der Definitionsversuch eines Phänomens.'' Pages 43-53 in Inkulturation des Christentums im Sasanidenreich. Mustafa, Arafa and Tubach, Jürgen and Vashalomidze, G. Sophia, eds. Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert, 2007.

Lieu, S. N. C. "Manichaean Terms in Syriac: Some Observations on their Transmission and Transformation." ARAM 16 (2004): 129-140.

Lieu, Samuel N.C. ''Manichaean technici termini in the Liber scholiorum of Theorore bar Kônî.'' Pages 245-254 in Il Manicheismo: Nuove Prospettive della Richerca. Atti del Quinto Congresso Internazionale di Studi sul Manicheismo (Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”; Napoli, 2-8 Settembre 2001). Van Tongerloo, Aloïs and Cirillo, Luigi, eds. Manichaean Studies 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.

Margoliouth, D. S., "Notes on Syriac Papyrus Fragments from Oxyrhynchus," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 2 (1915): 214-216.

Montgomery, James A. ''A Magical Bowl-Text and the Original Script of the Manichaeans.'' Journal of the American Oriental Society 32:4 (1912): 434-438.

Morehouse, Robert Joseph. ''Bar Dayṣān and Mani in Ephraem the Syrian’s Heresiography.'' Ph.D. dissertation, The Catholic University of America, 2013.

Nagel, Peter. ''Der Parakletenspruch des Mani (Keph. 14,7–11) und die altsyrische Evangelienübersetzung.'' Pages 303-313 in Festschrift zum 150jährigen Bestehen des Berliner Ägyptischen Museums. Mitteilungen aus der Ägyptischen Sammlung / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 8. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1974.

Nagel, Peter. ''Manichäisches im syrischen Liber Graduum?'' Pages 179-184 in Religionsbegegnung und Kulturaustausch in Asien. Studien zum Gedenken an Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. Gantke, Wolfgang and Hoheisel, Karl and Klein, Wassilios, eds. Studies in Oriental Religions 49. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002.

Nakano, Chiemi. ''Des rapports entre les marcionites et les manichéens dans un corpus Éphrémien: S. Ephrem’s Prose Refutations of Mani, Marcion, Bardaisan.'' Pages 441-453 in Pensée grecque et sagesse d’Orient. Hommage à Michel Tardieu. Amir-Moezzi, Mohammed-Ali and Dubois, Jean-Daniel and Jullien, Christelle and Jullien, Florence, eds. Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études, Sciences religieuses 142. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.

Pedersen, Nils Arne, Demonstrative Proof in Defense of God: A Study of Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos : the Work's Sources, Aims, and Relation to Its Contemporary Theology. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

Pedersen, Nils Arne. ''Syriac Texts in Manichaean Script: New Evidence.'' Pages 284-288 in Mani in Dublin: Selected Papers from the Seventh International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 8–12 September 2009. Richter, Siegfried G. and Horton, Charles and Ohlhafer, Klaus, eds. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 88. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2015.

Pettipiece, Timothy, ''Theodore Bar Khonai’s Résumé of the Manichaean Myth (Annotated Translation).'' Pages 223-229 in Pentadic Redaction in the Manichaean Kephalaia. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 66. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2009.

Pettipiece, Timothy. ''Parallel Paths: Tracing Manichaean Footrpints along the Syriac Book of Steps.'' Pages 32-40 in Breaking the Mind: New Studies in the Syriac “Book of Steps”. Edited by Heal, Kristian S. and Kitchen, Robert A. eds. CUA Studies in Early Christianity. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2014.

Pettipiece, Timothy. ''Biblical and Manichaean Citations in Titus of Bostra’s Contra Manichaeos.'' Pages 393-402 in Christianisme des origines: Mélanges en l’honneur du Professeur Paul-Hubert Poirier. Crégheur, Eric and Dias Chaves, Julio Cesar and Johnston, Steve, eds. Judaïsme ancien et origines du christianisme 11. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018.

Poirier, Paul-Hubert, and Timothy Pettipiece, Biblical and Manichaean Citations in Titus of Bostra's Against the Manichaeans'. An Annotated Inventory. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017.

Poirier, Paul-Hubert. ''Les Actes de Thomas et le manichéisme.'' Apocrypha 9 (1998): 263-290.

Poirier, Paul-Hubert. ''Exégèse manichéenne et anti-manichéenne de 2 Corinthiens 4,4 chez Titus de Bostra (Contre les manichéens IV 108).'' Pages 273-286 in Gnose et manichéisme: Entre les oasis d’Égypte et la Route de la Soie. Hommage à Jean-Daniel Dubois. Van den Kerchove, Anna and Soares Santoprete, Luciana Gabriela, eds. Bibliothèque de l’École des hautes études, Sciences religieuses 176. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017.

Poirier, Paul-Hubert. ''L’obstruction de l’abîme d’après Titus de Bostra (Contre les manichéens I, 42). Un aspect de l’eschatologie manichéenne.'' Pages 555-565 in Zur lichten Heimat: Studien zu Manichäismus, Iranistik und Zentralasienkunde im Gedenken an Werner Sundermann. Team “Turfanforschung,” ed. Iranica 25. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017.

Puech, Henri-Charles. ''Dates manichéennes dans les chroniques syriaques.'' Pages 593-607 in Mélanges syriens offerts à Monsieur René Dussaud secrétaire perpétuel de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres par ses amis et ses élèves. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 30. Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1939.

Reeves, John C. Heralds of That Good Realm: Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 41. Leiden / New York / Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996.

Reeves, John C. ''Manichaica Aramaica? Adam and the Magical Deliverance of Seth.'' Journal of the American Oriental Society 119:3 (1999): 432-439.

Rouwhorst, Gerard A.M. ''Das manichaeische Bemafest und das Passafest der syrischen Christen.'' Vigiliae Christianae 35:4 (1981): 397-411.

Ruani, Flavia, ''Between Myth and Exegesis: Ephrem the Syrian on the Manichaean Book of Giants.'' Studia Patristica 64:12 (2013): 155-165.

Ruani, Flavia. ''John of Dara on Mani: Manichaean Interpretations of Genesis 2:17 in Syriac.'' Pages 203-222 in Manichaeism East and West. Lieu, Samuel N.C. and Hunter, Erica C.D. and Morano, Enrico and Pedersen, Nils Arne, eds. Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum, Analecta Manichaica 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017.

Ruani, Flavia. "The 'Seal of the Mouth' in the Anti-Manichahean Polemic of Ephrem the Syrian." In Richter, Horton, and Ohlhafer, eds. Mani in Dubin: Selected Papers from the Seventh International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 8–12 September 2009  NHMS 88. Leiden: Brill, 2015, 324-337.

Ruani, Flavia. ''Le manichéisme vu par Ephrem le Syrien: analyse d’une réfutation doctrinale.'' Thèse de doctorat, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris / La Sapienza, Università di Roma, 2012.

Ruani, Flavia. ''Recherches sur la place d’Éphrem de Nisibe dans la littérature syriaque anti-manichéenne.'' Parole de l’Orient 38 (2013): 83-108.

Sala, Tudor Andrei. ''“Odysseus’ Bruises”: Traces of Literary Influence between the Manichaeans and Ephrem Syrus.'' ARAM 16:2 (2004): 245-262.

Shaked, Shaul. ''Manichaean Incantation Bowls in Syriac.'' Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 24 (2000): 58-92.

Tardieu, Michel. ''L’arrivée des Manichéens à al-Hira.'' Pages 15-24 in La Syrie de Byzance a l’Islam, VIIe–VIIIe siècles. Actes du Colloque international, Lyon–Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen, Paris – Institut du Monde Arabe, 11–15 Septembre 1990. Canivet, Pierre and Rey-Coquais, Jean-Paul, eds. Publications de l’Institut français de Damas 137. Damascus: Institut Français de Damas, 1992.

van Rompay, Lucas. ''Bardaisan and Mani in Philoxenus of Mabbog’s Mēmrē against Habbib.'' Pages 77-90 in Syriac Polemics: Studies in Honour of Gerrit Jan Reinink. Van Bekkum, Wout Jac. and Drijvers, Jan Willem and Klugkist, Alex C. eds. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 170. Leuven: Peeters, 2007.

van Reeth, Jan M.F. ''Le dualisme de Bardésane et de Mani: une lutte mythique ou symbolique?'' Pages 283-292 in Les combats dans les mythes et les littératures de l’Orient & Miscellanea orientalia et iranica belgo-polonica: Wojciech Skalmowski in memoriam. Persoons, Marie-Anne and Cannuyer, Christian and De Smet, Daniel, eds. Acta Orientalia Belgica 31. Bruxelles: Société royale belge d’études orientales, 2018.

von Wesendonk, Otto Günther, ''Bardesanes und Mani'', Acta Orientalia 10 (1932): 336-363.

Vööbus, Arthur. ''Manichaeism and Christianity in Persia under the Sassanids: Some Notes on Manichaean Ecclesiology and Its Background.'' Yearbook of the Estonian Learned Society in America 1 (1951-1953): 7-13.

Widengren, Geo. ''Bardesanes von Edessa und der syrisch-mesopotamische Gnostizismus. Ein Beitrag zur Vorgeschichte des Manichäismus.'' Pages 153-181 in The Many and the One: Essays on Religion in the Graeco-Roman World Presented to Herman Ludin Jansen on His 80th Birthday. Borgen, Peder, ed. Relieff 15. Trondheim: Tapir, 1985.