Mr. Mani

Author: A. B. Yehoshua
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547542453
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383

Book Description
New York Times Notable Book: A story of six generations of a Jewish family, by an author Saul Bellow called “one of Israel’s world-class writers.” In this novel, a winner of both the National Jewish Book Award and the first Israeli Literature Prize, A. B. Yehoshua weaves a deeply affecting family saga and an portrait of Jewish life over the past two centuries. The story moves backward through time, unfolding over the course of five conversations. On a kibbutz in the Negev in 1982, a student describes her strange meeting with her boyfriend’s father, Judge Gavriel Mani. On German-occupied Crete in 1944, a Nazi soldier recounts his attempts to hunt down the Mani family. In Jerusalem in 1918, a Jewish lawyer in the British army briefs his commanding officer on the forthcoming trial of the political agitator Yosef Mani. In a village in southern Poland in 1899, a young doctor reports back to his father on his travels, and on his sister’s romance with Dr. Moshe Mani. And in Athens in 1848, Avraham Mani reveals the heartbreaking tale of the death of his son, Yonef, in Jerusalem. Alfred Kazin hailed Mr. Mani as “one of the most remarkable pieces of fiction I have ever read.” Named as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, it is both an absorbing tale and a powerful statement about family, faith, and the weight of history. Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin

Mani

Author: L. J. R. Ort
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Manichaeism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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The Gospel of the Prophet Mani

Author: Duncan Greenlees
Publisher: Book Tree
ISBN: 1585095028
Category : Dualism
Languages : en
Pages : 581

Book Description
For centuries Manicheism was a powerful religion, rivaled only by Christianity, but now virtually unheard of.Today, there is a resurgence of interest in Gnostic teachings. This work has been painstakingly pieced together and is an important work for scholars, religious researchers and those interested in alternative spiritual paths.

Mani

Author: Ort
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004669337
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Mani's Pictures

Author: Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004308946
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 555

Book Description
The founder of Manichaeism, Mani (216-274/277 CE), not only wrote down his teachings to prevent their adulteration, but also created a set of paintings—the Book of Pictures—to be used in the context of oral instruction. That pictorial handscroll and its later editions became canonical art for Mani's followers for a millennium afterwards. This richly illustrated study systematically explores the artistic culture of religious instruction of the Manichaeans based on textual and artistic evidence. It discusses the doctrinal themes (soteriology, prophetology, theology, and cosmology) depicted in Mani’s canonical pictures. Moreover, it identifies 10th-century fragments of canonical picture books, as well as select didactic images adapted to other, non-canonical art objects (murals, hanging scrolls, mortuary banners, and illuminated liturgical manuscripts) in Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China.

Mani A Religio-Historical Description if his Personality

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings

Author: Iain Gardner
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004282629
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
In Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings the authors explore evidence arising from their project to edit the Chester Beatty Kephalaia codex. This new text presents Mani at the heart of Sasanian Iran in dialogue with its sages and nobles, acting as a cultural mediator between East and West and interpreter of Christian, Iranian, and Indian traditions. Nine chapters study Mani’s appropriation of the ‘law of Zarades’ and of Iranian epic; suggest a new understanding of his last days; and analyse his formative role in the history of late antique religions. These interdisciplinary studies advance research in several fields and will be of interest to scholars of Manichaeism, Sasanian Iran, and the development of religions in Late Antiquity.

Dear Dad

Author: Ky-Mani Marley
Publisher: Farrah Gray Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780972709996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Marley surname perpetuates Jamaican royalty, resonates from worldwide recognition and represents the pioneer of a cultural, political and social revolution. In the near-thirty years since the death of the world's greatest reggae-music icon, music lovers, truth seekers, and a new generation of social-activists alike have flocked to the musical catalog of Bob Marley like new believers on a pilgrimage for soul inspiration. Though Marley's iconic life was cut short before his time, his legacy lives on as vibrantly as it did when he walked among us. This is not only true because of his timeless music, but because of the musical genius of the extraordinary children he left behind. Born in Falmouth, Jamaica in 1976 as the tenth son of legendary reggae icon Bob Marley, Ky-Mani Marley discovered his musical talents late in life, rising to become an international music artist and film actor. Ky-Mani has not only written and performed songs of redemption around the world, like his famous father, but has lived and survived to recant his own personally redemptive story in the face of some very stark urban realities unbefitting any human, let alone a 'Marley.' Dear Dad, is an arresting narrative of a son locked out of his iconic father's shelter for the first half of his life and forced to survive the poverty-stricken, predator-infested streets of one of Miami's most violent ghettos, Liberty City. Initially estranged from his siblings and cut off from any financial benefit of the Marley Estate, young Ky-Mani's gritty ascent from a bullet-riddled life to the world stages he now commands as a Grammy-nominated recording artist are chronicled in this gripping biography. Today a dedicated father and family man traveling to all corners of the world, performing no less than 100 shows per year, Marley knew he¹d reached a plateau of transformation in his life when he was named 'Philanthropist of the Year' by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Better World Awards. His life is truly a 'redemption song.'

Mani and the Maniates

Author: Dēmos N. Mexēs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781425922337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494

Book Description
Being Alpha is one of the toughest jobs in the world. That's why Bad Bite Bonie is her own best friend, or at least that's what the entire pack has been lead to believe. Until, one day, a strange dog shows up claiming to have known her all his life. Now who's telling the truth, Alpha or Omega? Will the truth come out before time runs out for one of them? With a killer dog on the loose, only time will tell.

The Founder of Manichaeism

Author: Iain Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499074
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
A new critical look at Mani's life to establish a proper historical foundation for the study of this fascinating thinker.