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Mani as Physician (1)

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 		Keywords
Manichaeism
medicine
physicians
Period
1st century CE 		Channel
Manichaean texts

Text
Manichaean Psalm-Book 46.1-8, 46.19-30:
Lo, the great physician has come: he knows how to heal all men. He has spread his medicine-chest, he has called out: ‘He that wishes be cured’. Look at the multitude of cures: there is no cure save in him. He does not recoil from him that is sick, he does not mock him that has a wound in him. … He has the antidote that is food for every affection, there are two and twenty compounds in his antidote. His Great Gospel, the good tidings of all them that are of the Light, his water-pot is the Thesaurus, the treasure of Life. His soft sponge that wipes away bruises is the Pragmateia, his knife for cutting is the Book of the Mysteries, his excellent swabs are the Book of the Giants, the narthex of every are in the Book of his Letters.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Manichaean Psalm-Book 46.1-8
Manichaean Psalm-Book 46.19-30

Bibliography

Klimkeit 1996, 592Klimkeit, Hans-J. “Jesus, Mani and Buddha as Physicians in the Texts of the Silk Road.” In: La Persia e l'Asia Centrale da Alessandro al X secolo. Atti dei convegni lincei 127. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1996, 589-595.

Amar Annus


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