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Truth in Translation: Accur...

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The Manichaean Body: In Dis...

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New Light on Manichaeism (N...

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Augustine's Manichaean Dile...

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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions
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“But failure to gain significant and sustained political backing, relentless persecution, and other factors still not fully understood brought the Manichaean world crashing down. One”
Jason David BeDuhn, The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual

“am arguing, therefore, for the replacement of interpretation as it is generally practiced with exegesis. Exegesis is a method of discovering relations among language and referents, and is an essential part of translation. “Exegesis … does not constitute the interpretation of the symbol, but one of its extensions,” Dan Sperber maintains, and so it delineates truth as a set of relations rather than an ultimate determinant of meaning.28 A “meaning” is only another sign in the system from which the symbol being interpreted comes. As long as we find the meaning within other parts of the system, we are merely rotating signs in a way similar to that done by those using the system. To”
Jason David BeDuhn, The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual



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