Enrico Morano, Where the Demons Fell. A Manichaean Sogdian Manuscript in Sogdian Script from Mani’s Book of the Giants, JIL 1 (2024): 8-20
Two unpublished Sogdian fragments in Sogdian Script of the Berlin Turfan collection, both proposed here as part of the Sogdian version of Mani’s Book of the Giants, a cosmogonic text on the falling of the demons/archons to the four directions of the earth and part of the myth of the creation of the protoplasts.
A traditinal tale known mainly in the Syrian version transmitted by Theodor Bar Konai, Liber Scholiorum, involving the so called “Seduction of the Archons”, a
gnostic-Manichaean complex myth, central to the cosmic “economy of salvation”.
NB The JOURNAL OF IRANIAN LINGUISTICS (VOLUME 1 | ISSUE 1) is a new journal founded in ARMENIA (in a key moment of its millennial tragic history), with a really international board of editors, a sign of the global flourishing of Iranian studies, as well as international cooperation across bloody borders undermined by inter-ethnic and inter-religious hostility.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Hakob Avchyan, Yerevan State University, Armenia
Artyom Tonoyan, Yerevan State University, Armenia
EDITORIAL BOARD
Chiara Barbati, University of Pisa, Italy
Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Jila Ghomeshi, University of Manitoba, Canada
Geoffrey Haig, University of Bamberg, Germany
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
Simin Karimi, University of Arizona, USA
Paola Orsatti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Ludwig Paul, Hamburg University, Germany
Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand, Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran
Hassan Rezai Baghbidi, Osaka University, Japan
Pollet Samvelian, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
Jaffer Sheyholislami, Carleton University, Canada