Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and in Medieval China: A Historical Survey by Samuel N.C. Lieu
Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and in Medieval China: A Historical Survey
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Samuel N.C. Lieu
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Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and in Medieval China: A Historical Survey

Samuel N.C. Lieu

360 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

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In the third century A.D. the Syro-Persian Mani founded a highly evangelistic Gnostic religion in Mesopotamia which was to claim among its converts in the Roman Empire the young Augustine, and which was later to be seen as the inspiration for Paul...

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