Another Case of Human Semen Eucharist Among the Manichaeans?
The article focuses on a neglected passage in Cyril of Jerusalem’s Catechesis vi in which he speaks of the curious Manichaean ‘ceremony of the fig’. After providing the Greek text and a fresh translation of Cat. vi,33, an analysis is given of its contents. Noting that Cyril seems to have been well a...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Vigiliae Christianae
Year: 2016, Volume: 70, Issue: 4, Pages: 430-440 |
RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BF Gnosticism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
Further subjects: | B
Cyril of Jerusalem
Manichaeism
human semen eucharist
Manichaean art
sexual symbolism of the fig
Augustine of Hippo
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