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~ "The
Living
Gospel"~
Living Gospel (Gospel of Mani, Great Gospel) Manichaean Text by Mani ("His Great Gospel, the good tidings of all them that are of the Light. - Mani Bema Psalm) Al-Nadim, in his Fihrist, mentions this Book. "The seventh of Mani's main works, written in Persian, was his Engeliun (Evangelion, " Gospel "). Biruni says of it that it was of a character entirely different from the Christian Gospels, that the Manicheans regarded it as the only correct one and called it the " Gospel of the Seventy," and that it was arranged in the order of the twenty-two letters of the old Aramaic alphabet. It was written during the author's exile in Turkestan, and the initial capitals were, in Persian fashion, worked in ornamental designs, from which among the Persians Mani was known as " the painter," a charaoterizatibn not known to the Arabs or in the West. Possibly the reference in this title has something to do with the pictorial character of Mani's representations of heaven and hell. "The Living Gospel of the Living Mani contained twenty two chapters on the life of Yeshu (Jesus). Mirchod tells us that it was written and illustrated by Mani while he spent a year long retreat in a cave with a spring near Bukhara, Uzbekistan where Mani lived circa 244 A.D. for a year. Mani also painted the cave walls and illustrating his Ardahang, or pitcher book. (Jesus). Here is a list of the chapter names and the first few verses of the first chapter: Alaf (A) -The most Beloved Son, the Savior Jesus, the head of all these gifts, |
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