Table Of ContentTheChaptersoftheWisdomofMyLordMani
Nag Hammadi and
Manichaean Studies
Editors
JohannesvanOort
EinarThomassen
EditorialBoard
j.d. beduhn – d.m. burns – a.d. deconick
w.-p. funk – i. gardner – s.n.c. lieu
a. marjanen – l. painchaud – n.a. pedersen
t. rasimus – s.g. richter – m. scopello
j.d. turner – g. wurst
volume92
Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/nhms
manichaean manuscripts
in the chester beatty library
The Kephalaia Codex
The Chapters of the Wisdom
of My Lord Mani
Partiii:Pages343–442(Chapters321–347)
Editedandtranslatedby
IainGardner
JasonBeDuhn
PaulC.Dilley
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Contents
Introduction 1
TheChaptersoftheWisdomofMyLordMani:Pages343–442(Chapters321–347)
k321 (ThisChapter)…(…–345.5) 6
k322 ThisChaptertellshowtheApostle,beingintheCityofCtesiphon,wentto
ThirousaktheCommanderoftheKing.(345.6–353.22) 10
k323 …went…thePalaceoftheKing[ofTouran(?)].(353.23–356.14) 26
k324 ThisChaptertells[that]…Limbsisthis…(356.15–357.18) 32
k325 …beforehim…theCountryofTouran.(357.19–358.20) 34
k326 [Whenthe]Illuminator[wenttotheCityof[Hormēs]taksha[har](?),(hespoke
with?)theJudge,the(GreatOneofthe?)City.(358.21–364.9) 36
k327 [Aboutthe]WisdomthatGoundeshtheHoly(?)…utteredwiththeApostlefrom
timetotime.(364.10–368.5) 48
k328 ThisChapterspeaksaboutGoundeshquestioningtheApostle.
(368.6–369.23) 56
k329 [ThisChapter]tellsaboutGoundesh,[asking]theApostle:Whoisthefirst
[RighteousOnewhoreceivedtheBlessing];or[whois]thefirst[Sinner]who
receivedtheWoe?(369.24–371.14) 58
k330 ThisChapterspeaksaboutGoundesh,astheApostle…(371.15–372.25) 62
k331 ItspeaksagainaboutGoundesh,questioningtheApostle.(372.26–374.8) 64
k332 ItspeaksagainaboutGoundesh,sittingbeforetheApostle,astheyreadthe
[Great]TreasuryofLife.(374.9–381.3) 68
v
k333 ThisChaptertellsabouttheApostle:HowhecausestheScribestowriteLetters,
SendingthemtoDifferentPlaces.(381.4–384.20) 82
k334 (ThisChapter)…(384.21–387.4) 88
k335 IttellsthattheApostlesaid:ThisTeachingofInsatiablenessexistsinevery
Person,exceptforme(?)andmyDisciples.(387.5–388.29) 94
k336 IttellsagainaboutGoundesh,thathecameinbeforemyLord.MyLordasked
Him:Whatareyoudoing?Sayshe:Iamdiscontent!(389.1–390.13) 98
k337 ThisChapterspeaksaboutGoundesh,whoaskedtheApostle:TheseTwelve
Personsthatyouselected,bywhatMysterydidyouselectthem?OrtheseSeventy-
Two,moreover,bywhatMysterydidyouselectthem?
(390.14–400.23) 100
k338 ThisChapterspeaksaboutaMan,IodasphesbeinghisName,whoisgreaterthan
MasoukeosandGoundesh.HecamebeforeShapurtheKing.
(400.24–409.11) 120
k339 (Ittells)…(409.12–413.23) 138
k340 …KardeltheSonofArtaban[went]into…Children…(413.24–415.24) 146
k341 [ThisChapter]speaksaboutafaithfulCatechumen,Pabakosishis[Name].…He
askstheApostleaQuestion.(415.25–420.28) 150
k342 ThisChaptersaysthat,whiletheApostleissittingintheChurch,aNoblecamein
beforeHim.He(i.e.Mani)spokewithhimintheWisdomofGod.
(420.29–427.27) 160
k343 IttellsagainaboutPabakostheCatechumen.HeaskstheApostleaboutaLesson.
(427.28–433.14) 174
k344 (ThisChapter)…(433.15–436.20) 186
k345 ThisChapter…(436.21–439.3) 192
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k346 ThisChaptersaysthat…aboutShapurtheKingin(theLandof?)…
(439.4–441.3) 198
k347 ThisChapterspeaksabouttheApostle,whoisinaCity.SomePriestsreceive
their…(441.4–442.6) 202
Bibliography 207
Indexof PersonalandPlaceNames 211
Indexof Apostles 212
IndexofTheLightandtheDarkness 213
Indexof ScripturalAllusions 214
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Introduction
The Chester Beatty Kephalaia codex constitutes the ultyofArtsandSocialSciences,UniversityofSydney,
secondpartof amassivetwovolume,scholasticcol- forenablingIainGardnerdedicatedresearchtimeand
lectionbelongingtotheMedinetMadicorpusofMa- useof itsfacilities;DeanMichaelVincentof theCol-
nichaeantexts,purportingtobeoralteachingsofthe legeof ArtsandLettersof NorthernArizonaUniver-
religion’sfounder,Mani(or,asourcodexconsistently sity for facilitating research leave for Jason BeDuhn.
has,‘theMannichaios’,althoughmostof thetimehe For consultation on various aspects of the project,
is referred to simply as ‘the Apostle’). The first part as well as providing an invaluable concordance of
of this Coptic Kephalaia collection is contained in theMedinetMadimanuscripts,wewouldliketogive
a codex held primarily in Berlin (p. 15996), entitled special thanks to Wolf-Peter Funk of the Université
The Chapters of the Teacher, which has been edited Laval.
and translated into German by Hans Jakob Polotsky Over the entire course of the project, the staff of
and Alexander Böhlig (1935–1940), Alexander Böhlig theChesterBeattyLibraryhavebeenextraordinarily
(1966),andWolf-PeterFunk(1999–2018).Thesecond understanding and helpful, beginning with two suc-
codex, a part of which is presented here, is held in cessive Directors, Dr. Michael Ryan and Dr. Fionnu-
theChesterBeattyLibrary,Dublin,andisentitledThe ala Croke, and two successive curators, Charles Hor-
ChaptersoftheWisdomofMyLordMani.Despitethis ton and Jessica Baldwin (now Head of Collections
distincttitle,itcontinuesthesequenceof numbered andConservation),alongwithlibrariansCelineWard
chaptersfromtheBerlincodex,andbringsthecollec- andHyderAbbas,curatorialassistantElizabethOmid-
tiontoaconclusion. varan,aswellasthemanyotherswhohaveassistedat
Although the codex was discovered in the late onetimeoranother,fromtheconservationlaboratory
1920s,andconservationworkonitbeguninthe1930s to the photography room,from handling the glassed
was completed in the 1950s, earlier plans for an edi- leavestoarchivalresearch.
tion did not come to fruition.The current project to Inadditiontomanyhoursofautopsyoftheglassed
edit and translate it was initiated in 2008 by an edi- leavesattheChesterBeattyLibrary,theteamworked
torialteamconsistingofIainGardner,JasonBeDuhn, withavarietyofphotographicimages.Onemustmen-
and Paul Dilley. The editors wish to thank the fol- tion first the facsimile edition published by Søren
lowinginstitutionsfortheirgeneroussupportof our Giversen(TheManichaeanCopticPapyriintheChester
work:theAustralianResearchCouncilforaDiscovery BeattyLibrary,FacsimileEdition,Volume1:Kephalaia,
Projectaward,2009–2012;theUnitedStatesNational Genève:PatrickCramer,1986).Thecblarchiveholds
Endowment for the Humanities for a Collaborative copies of the original black and white photographs
Researchgrant,2009–2012;theIntramuralGrantsPro- that formed the basis of the facsimile, and these
gram of Northern Arizona University for a project were consulted in the process of our work. Addi-
seed grant in 2008–2009; the National Humanities tional images were provided by our imaging team,
Center for a Goheen Fellowship for 2010 (BeDuhn); Daniel Boone and Ryan Belnap, working under the
the American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant auspicesoftheNorthernArizonaUniversityIDEALab,
in 2009 for support of travel to Dublin (Dilley); an anditsdirector,MarcelleCoder.Itisveryregrettable
AlexandervonHumboldtStiftungrenewalfellowship thatthisresearch-supportlaboratoryhasbeensubse-
insummer2011forworkinBerlin,hostedbyDesmond quently dissolved. Digital photographs of some por-
Durkin-Meisterernst and the Turfanforschung group tionsofthecodexeditedinthisvolumeweresupplied
atbbaw(Dilley);andanArtsandHumanitiesInitia- bythecblin2008andenhancedbyBooneandBel-
tive(ahi)AwardfromtheUniversityofIowa(Dilley); nap through computer-based treatments. Other por-
theSchoolof Literature,ArtandMediaandtheFac- tions were included in a set of photographs held by
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theBritishMuseum,takenatthetimeofRolfIbscher’s sages.Itshouldalsobemadeclearthathehasmade
conservation work in the 1950s, discovered in the nodirectinputintotheeditionasitispresented,and
archive by one of the museum’s archivists, Patricia isinnowayresponsibleforit.Revisionofthetransla-
Usick, and provided for our project with the kind tionwasthenputintothehandsofJasonBeDuhn,in
permission of Dr. Ilona Regulski, Curator of Egyp- theprocessofwhichanumberofadditionalimprove-
tianWrittenCulture,BritishMuseum.Finally,multi- mentstothetextcouldbesuggested.Thistranslation,
spectralimagesoftheentirecodexwereproducedby likewise, was circulated for review and comment by
Boone and Belnap in 2012 (we wish to acknowledge theothermembersoftheteampriortofinalizingthe
theassistanceof JohnGeeof BrighamYoungUniver- manuscriptforpublication.PaulDilleybegantopre-
sityinpreparingtheprotocolsforthiswork).Theedi- paretheindex,andthethreetasksof Copticedition,
torialteambenefittedfrombeingabletocross-check English translation and indexing continued in tan-
readings between these various sets of images, and dem.
comparethemtowhatcanbereadtodayfromdirect Authorshipofindividualreadingsisnotcreditedas
autopsy. thishasbeenanevolvingeditionofthetext,worked-
The editorial work on the manuscript proceeded overrepeatedlybyIainGardnerwithduereferenceto
as follows. First, the codex was divided into three thedrafts,commentsandcritiquesof JasonBeDuhn
parts,andeachmemberof theteampreparedapre- andPaulDilley.Provisionalreadingshavecontinually
liminarysetof readingsforhisrespectivepart.These beenalteredandindeedfrequentlyusedasabasisfor
readings were circulated among the other members thedevelopmentof newreadingsandthusasteadily
of theteam,eachof whomaddedorcorrectedread- improvedunderstandingoftheoverallwork.Thispro-
ingswherepossiblefromhisownexaminationofthe cesscontinuesandtheprintpublicationrepresentsa
imagesandmanuscript.Atthenextstage,afterteam snapshotof thereadingof thecodexatthatparticu-
consultationoncodicologicalmatters,allof thepro- larpointintime.Unanimousagreementontextand
visional drafts were put into the hands of our team translation was not always obtained, and although
leader, Iain Gardner, who began extensive revisions consensusormajorityopinionhasgenerallybeenfol-
and the imposition of certain protocols across the lowed,andtheeditioncarriesthecollectiveeffortsof
entirecodex.Gardner’sworkatthisstageconstituted the entire team, Iain Gardner has final responsibil-
a significant advance in the overall continuity and ityfortheCoptictextpresentedhere.JasonBeDuhn
sense of the manuscript, resulting in an extensively bears final responsibility for the English translation.
reworked Coptic text and a complete draft English PaulDilleyhasundertakenfinalresponsibilityforthe
translationin2015.Histextandtranslationwerethen index and associated grammatical identifications to
recirculated among the other members of the team bepresentedattheconclusionoftheeditorialprocess
formark-upandcomment,assentordissentonread- withthepublicationofthefinalvolume.
ings,andfurthersuggestionsforimprovement,partic- Anattempthasbeenmadetoapplystandardproto-
ularlyreviewofpertinentCopticgrammarandsyntax colsconsistentlyacrosstheentireCoptictext,reflect-
byPaulDilley.In2016Gardnerundertookpreparation inganidealformofthesetofscribalpracticesaswell
ofthefinaldraftofthatpartoftheeditiontobepub- astheactualconditionsobservedinthemanuscript.
lished in the current volume. At this stage, the elec- These include matters such as ekthesis of new para-
tronic Concordance of Medinet Madi manuscripts graphs of text, the use of larger font for initial let-
preparedbyWolf-PeterFunkwasabletobeconsulted, ters, indication of breaks in the text, and placement
andthelatter’sprovisionalreadingsfromthecodexas of superlinear strokes, as well as the dotting of inse-
foundtherecontributedtothefurtherimprovement curelettersandtheuseofbrackets.Thisimposeduni-
ofthetext.WearemostgratefultoDr.Funkformaking formity at times obscures a certain variety (deliber-
thisresourceavailabletous,andacknowledgethatwe ateorotherwise)inthescribalpractice.Forexample,
havebenefittedfromhisunderstandingofcertainpas- thescribewasnotalwaysconsistentintheplacingof
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