Byzantium to China : religion, history and culture on the silk roads : studies in honour of Samuel N.C. Lieu / edited by Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Ken Parry.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This collection of papers reflects the interests and influence of Samuel N. C. Lieu on scholars and students during his academic career. It demonstrates not only the importance of his work on Manichaeism, but his broader intellectual contribution to early Christian, Roman, Byzantine, and comparative historical studies. His impact on Manichaean studies has been unparalleled resulting in several prestigious book series devoted to the linguistic and historical study of Mani and his religion. It is largely thanks to his enterprise that scholars now have access to an extensive library of texts and images unavailable to earlier researchers. The volume honours the life and work of a remarkable scholar of international renown.

1 Nārāyaṇa Buddha: Adaptation of Manichaean Prophetology in South, Central, and East Asia / Jason BeDuhn -- Sacred Space: The Orkhon Valley and the Empires of the Steppe / Craig Benjamin -- The Nag Hammadi Codices and Monasticism / Malcolm Choat -- Non-Zoroastrians in Zoroastrian Law: The Sasanian Law Book in Comparison to Later Pahlavi Texts / Iris Colditz -- An Uncivilized Empire: Xuanzang on Persia / Max Deeg -- Another Coptic Manichaean Psalm to Jesus (Nº 242)  / Jean-Daniel Dubois -- Rome’s Eastern Trade and Imperialism from Augustus to the Severans / Peter M. Edwell -- A Stranger Twice Over: Manichaean Ideology and Mission / Majella Franzmann -- The Construction of an Iranian Lineage for Manichaeism / Iain Gardner -- Procopius and the Kings of Persia / Geoffrey Greatrex -- The Footprint of Mani’s Book of Pictures in Late Antique Sources: An Assessment of Social and Geographical Data about Teaching with Images among the Manichaeans During the 3rd and 4th Centuries / Zsuzsanna Gulácsi -- Debating with the Jews at Turfan / Erica C.D. Hunter -- Between Marcion and Mani: Open Questions for a Continuing Conversation / Judith M. Lieu -- Chinese and Western Resources for a Global Ethic / Torbjörn Lodén -- Mani Eats Greek Bread: The Sitz im Leben of the Cologne Mani-Codex / Paul McKechnie -- Xuanzong’s Edict of 732 on Manichaeism / Gunner Mikkelsen -- Historical Fiction in Syriac and the Clash of Religions and Cultures in the Late Antique Near East / Fergus Millar† -- More Fruits and Trees in Manichaean Sogdian / Enrico Morano -- What’s in a Name? Papyrus Evidence for Christian Female Onomastic Practice in Egypt during the Period of Christianisation to the Early Byzantine Period / Alanna Nobbs -- What Did Augustine See? Augustine and Mani’s Picture Book / Johannes van Oort -- Pierre Gilles’ Constantinople: A 16th-Century Frenchman in the City of Suleyman the Magnificent / Ken Parry -- First Man and Third Messenger in Manichaean Mythology / Nils Arne Pedersen -- The Manichaean Contour Letters / Christiane Reck -- Following the Persians: Alexander the Great, His Mints at Tarsus and Babylon, and the Minting Practices of Persian and Greek Satraps / Kenneth A. Sheedy -- The Rediscovery of Sogdian / Nicholas Sims-Williams -- Traces of Christianity in the Land of the Tangut from the 8th to the 14th Century / Li Tang -- Did Christianity (or St. Thomas) Come to 1st-Century China? / Glen L. Thompson -- “Vous avez eu le courage de dire ce que pensent les meilleurs turquisants”: la correspondance Antoine Meillet / Willy Bang [Kaup] / Aloïs van Tongerloo† and Herman Seldeslachts --On the Manichaean Preacher Hulu Fashi of the Tang Dynasty / Wang Yuanyuan and Lin Wushu -- Christians in the Service of the Tang Emperor Suzong (756–762): A Curious Poem by Li Bo / David Wilmshurst -- Sogdian Christians in China, Turfan and Sogdiana / Yutaka Yoshida -- Notes on a Turkic Manichaean Benediction Hymn / Peter Zieme

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"... The book consists of four parts. The translations of ... the direct Nestorian documents discovered in China and in Chinese Turkestan since 1905 form part I, and the description of the Nestorian relics so far found out in China, Mongolia and Manchuria occupies part II, while the translation of ... the indirect Nestorian documents, viz., the quotations from the Chinese historical records are put in part III ... The original Chinese texts for part I are added ... forming part IV."--Pref.
***Graphic resource: Nestorian crosses, rubbings, stele, monuments, nativity, Xi'an fu, Si-ngan Fu.

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Available online at Internet Archive.

The story of a stele : China's Nestorian Monument and its reception in the West, 1625-1916 / Michael Keevak.
Prologue: The Story of a Stone – 1. A Stone Discovered – 2. The Century of Kircher – 3. Eighteenth-Century Problems and Controversies – 4. The Return of the Missionaries – Epilogue: The Da Qin Temple.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Illustrations from the following texts and added keywords: Nestorian monument, Henri Havret, La stèle chrétienne de Si-ngan-fou – Alvaro Semedo, History of the great and renowned monarchy of China – Athanasius Kircher, Prodromus coptus, China illustrata, Crux miraculosa, Andreas Müller Monumenti sinici, monument with musical notation, Christain Mentzel wordlist, Sylloge minutiarum lexici latino-sinico-characterisici – French-Chinese dictionary, Chine illustrée – Johannes Nieuhoff, An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces – Marquis d’Argens, Lettres chinoises – Joseph de Mailla, Histoire générale de la Chine – Charles William Wall, An examination of the ancient orthography of the Jews – St. Thomas Cross, Diogo do Couto, Decadas da Asia, João de Lucena, Historia da vida do padre Francisco de Xavier – Cross, Michel Boym, Flora sinensis, Cross from Fujian province, Havret – Manuel Dias, Tang jingjiao beisong zhengquan – Louis Gaillard, Croix et swastika en Chine, Baron Henrion, Joh. Ev. Heller, James Legge, The Nestorian monument of Hsi-an Fu, Edouard Chavannes, Mission archéologique dans la Chine septentrionale - Frits Holm, Yü Show, My Nestorian adventure in China - P. Y. Saeki, Keikyo hibun kenkyu, Da Qin pagoda, Beilin.

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Yuanta jinshi tu 原搨金石圖. Alt. useage: Yuantuo jinshi tu 原拓金石圖?

Fan-folded (2 ce 冊) album of mounted rubbings with descriptions in Chinese. No author, publisher, date, or place of publication. Seal (rubbed) in first page of each ce. Rubbings from tombstones, stele, taken from Han and other ancient cites including Confucian temples. Descriptions and dimensions included. Not in OCLC. Rare.