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 prehistory of the Silk Road / E.E. Kuzmina ; edited by Victor H. Mair.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-242) and index.

The dynamics of the Eurasian steppe ecology -- Economic developments in the Ponto-Caspian steppe -- The first stage of the food-producing economy -- The second stage of the food-producing economy -- The domestication and early use of the horse -- The development of the pit-grave cultural community -- The spread of wheeled transport: a prerequisite to the opening of the Great Silk Road routes -- The Eurasian steppe in the Bronze Age -- Proto-urban culture in the Urals -- The chariots of the Eurasian steppe -- The crisis of complex economy, the development of nomadism in the Eurasian steppe, and the origins of the Great Silk Road routes -- The origin and spread of the Bactrian camel -- Archaeological cultures of southern Central Asia -- Southern Turkmenistan -- The lower and middle part of Transoxiana -- Ferghana -- Kirghizstan -- Relations between eastern and western Central Asia -- Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Copper Age, and the Tocharian question -- Contacts of the Xinjiang people with the West in the Bronze Age.

"The majority of the Silk Road routes passed through the Eurasian Steppe, whose nomadic peoples were participants and mediators in its economic and cultural exchanges. Until now, the origins of these routes and relationships have not been examined in great detail. In The Prehistory of the Silk Road, E.E. Kuzmina, renowned Russian archaeologist, looks at the history of this crucial area before the formal establishment of Silk Road trade and diplomacy. From the late Neolithic period to the early Bronze Age, Kuzmina traces the evolution of the material culture of the Steppe and the contact between civilizations that proved critical to the development of the widespread trade that would follow, including nomadic migrations, the domestication and use of the horse and the camel, and the spread of wheeled transport."

"The Prehistory of the Silk Road combines detailed research in archaeology with evidence from physical anthropology, linguistics, and other fields, incorporating both primary and secondary sources from a range of languages, including a vast accumulation of Russian-language scholarship largely untapped in the West. The book is complemented by an extensive bibliography that will be of great use to scholars."--Jacket.

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