Review of Brand, Religion and the everyday life of Manichaeans in Kellis

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Religion and the everyday life of Manichaeans in Kellis: beyond light and darkness.

Mattias Brand, Religion and the everyday life of Manichaeans in Kellis: beyond light and darkness. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, 102. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. 383. ISBN 9789004508224

Review by
Joseph E. Sanzo, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. joseph.sanzo@unive.it

... Brand has produced a well-informed and highly nuanced analysis of late antique Manichean life in Kellis. The image of Manichaeism in late-antique Kellis that emerges from this book is one of a complex and ever-shifting relationship between Manichean religious identity or “groupness,” on the one hand, and the exigencies of quotidian existence across a range of social contexts (e.g., family, economy, and scribal culture), on the other hand. ...

I noted the publication of the book here. For more on the important site of Kellis, Egypt, and its Manichean texts, see there and links, plus here.

Cross-file under Manichean (Manichaean) Watch, Coptic Watch, and Syriac Watch.

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