Books By Iain (University of Sydney) Gardner, Jason (Northern Arizona University) BeDuhn - Author

Iain Gardner is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He is a Coptic language and Manichaean studies specialist who has published the editio princeps of more than a 100 texts, especially the major archive of fourth-century papyri discovered in Egypt by the Dakhleh Oasis Project and published under his editorship in a series of P. Kellis volumes. He is the author of the standard English translation of the Berlin Kephalaia (1995), the most extensive compendium of Manichaean teachings known from antiquity; and he leads the ongoing project to edit one of the largest papyrus codices that survives from the ancient world: The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani (housed in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin). He was recently awarded a major Discovery Project grant by the Australian Research Council to lead an international team studying 'Manichaean Liturgical Texts and Practices from Egypt to China' (2019–22). Jason BeDuhn is Profess