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Table of Contents
Carlos A. Segovia
Part 1: Re-Assessing the Hypothesis of a
Peripheral Jewish Background
Aaron W. Hughes
José Costa
Part 2: An Encrypted Manichaean / Messalian Matrix?
Daniel A. Beck
Carlos A. Segovia
Part 3: Measuring the World’s Timeline… and Imagining the Afterlife at the Persian Court?
Basil Lourié
Gilles Courtieu
Part 4: Conceptual Quicksand, Meta-Narratives of Identity, Texts and their Marginalia
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Tommaso Tesei
Emilio González Ferrín