Mirecki's Publications and Papers

Professor Paul Mirecki's Publications:
Books, Articles, and Reviews

(5) P. Mirecki and M. Meyer (eds.) Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2002).

(4) P. Mirecki and J. BeDuhn (eds.) The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and its World (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2001).

(3) P. Mirecki and C. Hedrick The Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel. (Santa Rosa: Polebridge, 1999).

(2) P. Mirecki and J. BeDuhn (eds.) Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 1997).

(1) P. Mirecki and M. Meyer (eds.) Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 1995).

(17) "A Seventh-Century Coptic Limestone in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Bodl. copt. inscr. 426)" in Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World. eds. Mirecki & Meyer (Brill, 2001) 47-69.

(16) "Evangelion-Incipits Amulets in Greek and Coptic: Towards a Typology" in Proceedings of the 2000 Midwest Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research. (ABS, 2001) 143-153.

(15) A critical review essay of T. Teeter, Columbia Papyri XI. (American Studies in Papyrology 38; Scholars Press, 1998) in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists. ed. T. Renner (2001) 135-145.

(14) "Manichaean Allusions to Ritual and Magic: Spells for Invisibility in the Coptic Kephalaia", in The Light and the Darkness. eds. Mirecki & BeDuhn (Brill, 2001) 173-180.

(13) "The Ballard Papyrus: A Recently Identified Scroll of the Egyptian Amduat Text in the University of Kansas Collection (ca. 950 BCE) in Proceedings of the 2000 Midwest Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research. (ABS, 2000) 97-104.

(12) "Manichaean Letter, Magical Spell", in Emerging from Darkness. eds. Mirecki & BeDuhn (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 1997) 1-32, co-authored with A. Alcock & I. Gardner.

(11) "The Coptic Wizard's Hoard" in Harvard Theological Review. (1995) 435-460.

(10) "The Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex" in Gnosisforschung und Religionsgeschichte (Festschrift for Kurt Rudolph). eds. Preißler & Siewert (Marburg, 1995) 199-207.

(09) "Considerations on the Coptic Papyrus of the Didache (British Library Oriental Manuscript 9271)" with F. S. Jones in The Didache in Context. ed. C. Jefford (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 1995) 47-87.

(08) "The 'Nous' in the Greek and Coptic Magical Papyri" in The Manichaean Nous. ed. A. van Tongerloo (Louvain, Belgium, 1995) 199-216.

(07) "A Hymn to the Light-Nous in the Coptic Manichaean Psalm-Book" in The Manichaean Nous. ed. van Tongerloo (Louvain, Belgium, 1995) 183-198.

(06) "The Figure of Seth in a Coptic Magical Text" in Acts of the Fifth Congress of the International Association for Coptic Studies. ed. D. Johnson (Rome, Italy,1994) 313-328.

(05) "A Coptic Hoard of Spells from the University of Michigan" in Ancient Christian Magic. eds. M. Meyer & R. Smith (Harper, 1994) 292-310.

(04) "The Antithetic Saying at Mark 16:16" in The Future of Early Christianity (Festschrift for Helmut Koester). ed. B. Pearson (Fortress, 1991) 229-242.

(03) "Coptic Manichaean Psalm 278 and Gospel of Thomas 37" in Manichaica Selecta. ed. A. van Tongerloo & S. Giversen (Leuven, Belgium, 1991) 243-262.

(02) "The Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex" in Studies in Manichaeism. ed. P. Bryder (Lund, Sweden, 1988) 135-145.

(01) "Infancy Gospel of Thomas: Comparative Study of the Versions" in Essays Honoring J. Phillipps. ed. Brookman (Minneapolis, 1983) 191-201.

(26) Karen L. King, What is Gnosticism? in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly (2005).

(25) Erik Hornung, The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West. (Cornell, 2001) in the American Journal of Archaeology (2005).

(24) Sacrificing the Self: Perspectives on Martyrdom and Religion. ed. M. Cormack (Oxford/AAR, 2001) in The Journal of Near Eastern Studies (2004).

(23) Coptic Manuscripts from the White Monastery: Works of Shenute 2 vols., ed. D. W. Young (Wien, 1993) in The Journal of Near Eastern Studies (1996).

(22) The Women's Study Bible. ed. Carol Newson & Sharon Ringe (Westminster/JNP, 1990) in Religious Studies In Kansas (1992).

(21) Dieter Luehrmann, An Itinerary for New Testament Study. (Trinity, 1989) in Religious Studies In Kansas (1992).

(20) Coins of the Seleucid Empire from the Collection of Arthur Houghton. ed. A. Houghton (Am. Soc. Numismatists, 1983), in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Spring 1990.

(19) The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions. ed. Bentley Layton (Doubleday, 1987), in Biblical Archaeologist, March 1989; 49-50.

(18) Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World, ed. John Gager (Oxford, 1992), in the International Journal of Comparative Religion (York University, 1996).

(17) "Manichaeism" in The Gnostic Bible. eds. W. Barnstone & M. Meyer (Shambala, 2004).

(16) "Introduction: Manichaeism and its World" (with J. BeDuhn) in The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and its World. ed. P. Mirecki & J. BeDuhn (Brill, 2001) 1-4.

(15) "Introduction: Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World" ( with M. Meyer) in Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World. ed. P. Mirecki & M. Meyer (Brill, 2002) ix-xvii.

(14) "Manichaean Studies at the End of the 20th Century" (with J. BeDuhn) in Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources. ed. P. Mirecki & J. BeDuhn (Brill, 1997) i-iv.

(13) "Introduction" (with M. Meyer) in Ancient Magic and Ritual Power. ed. P. Mirecki & M. Meyer (Brill, 1995) 1-10.

(12) "Amulet with Words and Names of Power (P. Mich. inv. 3023A)" in Ancient Christian Magic eds. M. Meyer & R. Smith (Harper, 1994) 250-51.

(11) "Another Amulet with Names of Power (P. Mich. inv. 3472)" in Ancient Christian Magic eds. M. Meyer & R. Smith (Harper, 1994) 251.

The Anchor Bible Dictionary 6 vols. (Doubleday, 1992):
    (09) "Basilides" 1:624-25.
    (08) "Hymn of the Pearl" 3:350-51.
    (07) "Peter, The Gospel of" 5:278-81.
    (06) "Manichaeans and Manichaeism" 4:502-11.
    (05) "Thomas, The Infancy Gospel of" 6:540-44.
    (04) "Valentinus" 6:783-784.

(03) "The First Two-Years of the SBL Consultation on Manichaeism: 1988- 89" in The Manichaean Studies Newsletter ed. A. van Tongerloo(Belgian Center for Manichaean Studies: Brussels, Belgium) Spring 1990.

(02) "The Second Two-Years of the SBL Consultation on Manichaeism: 1993-94" in The Manichaean Studies Newsletter ed. A. van Tongerloo (Belgian Center for Manichaean Studies: Brussels, Belgium) Fall 1995.

(01) "The Major World Religion that Vanished: Manichaeism:" in Religion Journal of Kansas 28.3; August 1991.

Papers Read at Scholarly Societies & Universities:

(40) "A New Coptic Amulet from Worrell's Wizard's Hoard (P.Mich. inv. 597-598, 602.2 and 1294)" a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, TX.

(39) 11/04 "Ecstatic Ascent in the Acta Archelai" a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, TX.

(38) 04/02 "The Ballard Papyrus: New Hieroglyphic Texts of the Amduat" a paper read at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Kansas City, MO.

(37) 04/01 "A Coptic Fragment of Sirach from an Early Vellum Codex in the Berlin Collection" a paper read at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Kansas City, MO.

(36) 08/00 "Coptic and Coptic-Arabic Papyri in Berlin's Egyptian Collection" a paper read at the International Conference on Papyrology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

(35) 08/00 "Greek Papyri in Berlin's Egyptian Collection" a paper read at the International Conference on Papyrology at he University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

(34) 04/00 "The Ballard Papyrus: A Recently Identified Scroll of the Egyptian Amduat Text in the University of Kansas Collection (ca. 950 BCE)" a paper read at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Kansas City, MO.

(33) 11/99 "More Magic and Manichaeans" a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, MA.

(32) 11/99 "From Egypt to Berlin: The Recovery of a Lost Ancient Gospel" a paper read at Tufts University, Boston, MA.

(31) 10/99 "On Discovering and Deciphering a New Lost Gospel" a paper read at Allen County Community College, Allen County, KS.

(30) 10/99 "Process of Discovery: Finding and Publishing a Lost Gospel" a paper read at Emporia State University, Emporia, KS.

(29) 10/98 "The Coptic Gospel of the Savior: Codicological Reconstruction" a paper read at the Westar Institue: Jesus Seminar Workshop, Santa Rosa, CA.

(28) 10/98 "Interpreting the Coptic Gospel of the Savior: Writing a First Commentary on a Lost Gospel (Text, Author, Narrator, Story)" a paper read at the Westar Institue: Jesus Seminar Workshop, Santa Rosa, CA.

(27) 8/98 "New Coptic Magical Texts" a paper read at the the Second International Conference on Magic in the Ancient World; Chapman University, Orange, CA.

(26) 11/97 "Manichaeans and Magic in Fourth-Century Kellis, Egypt" a paper read at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, CA.

(25) 4/97 "An Unedited Coptic Limestone in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Bodl. Copt. inscr. 426)" a paper read at the annual regional meeting of American Schools of Oriental Research, Kansas City, MO.

(24) 11/96 "A Sayings-Psalm in the Coptic Manichaean Psalm-Book" a paper read at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblica Literature, New Orleans, LA.

(23) 10/96 "Method in the Study of Ancient Greek and Coptic Manuscripts (ca. 300-600 CE)" a paper presented to the Faculty Seminar on Social and Cultural Studies before 1500, sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas.

(22) 07/96 "A Preliminary Report on Coptic Codex P. Berol. 22220" co-authored with C. Hedrick, at the Sixth Conference of the International Association for Coptic Studies, Münster, Germany.

(21) 03/96 "Two Newly Discovered Manichaean Letters from Fourth-Century Kellis, Egypt" a paper read at the annual regional meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, St. Louis, MO.

(20) 11/95 "Another Manichaean Letter from Kellis (Dakleh Oasis, Egypt)" a paper read at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, PA.

(19) 11/94 "P88: A Greek and Coptic Manichaean Letter from Kellis" with A. Alcock (Germany) and I. Gardner (Australia), a paper read at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, IL.

(18) 11/93 "The Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex: Codicology and Intertextuality", the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Washington, DC.

(17) 09/93 "Sayings-Psalm and Dialogue-Psalm in the Coptic Manichaean
Psalm-Book", a paper read at the Third International Conference on Manichaean Studies; University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy.

(16) 08/92 "A Preview of Volume IV of Ägyptische Urkunden aus den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Koptische Urkunden", a paper read at the Fifth Meeting of the International Association for Coptic Studies;The Catholic University, Washington, D.C.

(15) 08/92 "Seth, the Son of Adam in a Coptic Magical Text: P. Mich. inv. 593" a paper read at the meeting of the International Association for Coptic Studies; Catholic University, Washington. D.C.

(14) 08/92 "Trifles: New Coptic Magical Texts from Berlin and Ann Arbor" a paper read at the International Conference on Magic in the Ancient World; University of Kansas.

(13) 08/91 "The 'Nous' in the Greek and Coptic Magical Papyri: A Contribution to the Study of the 'Nous' in Manichaeism" a paper read at the International Conference on the Manichaean Nous; Catholic University; Leuven, Belgium.

(12) 08/91 "A Hymn to the Light-Nous in the Coptic Manichaean Psalm-Book" a paper read at the International Conference on the Manichaean Nous; Catholic University; Leuven, Belgium.

(11) 11/90 "A Proposal for a Two-Stage Redactional History for the Longer Ending of Mark" a paper read at the annual conference of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans.

(10) 08/90 "Coptic Papyri in the University of Michigan Collection" a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association,Notre Dame University.

(09) 11/89 "The Infancy Gospel of Thomas: Primitive Features of the Greek-Beta Text Type", a paper read at the annual conference of the Society of Biblical Literature; Anaheim, CA.

(08) 08/89 "On the Recovery of a Manichaean Primary Source: The Elusive Structure and Contents of the Coptic Synaxeis Codex", a paper read at the Zweiter Internationaler Kongreß zum Manichäismus; University of Bonn, Germany.

(07) 04/89 "A Hoard of Coptic Magical Papyri in the University of Michigan Collection", a paper read at the annual meeting of the Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences, & Letters; Grand Valley, MI.

(06) 03/89 "Codicological Issues and the Coptic Wizard's Hoard", a paper read at "The Coptic Seminar"; Institute for Antiquity & Christianity, Claremont Graduate School.

(05) 02/89 "Mnemonic Oral-Rhymes in Q, Matthew, and Mark: A Case Study in Residual Orality", a paper read at the annual meeting of the Midwest Region Society of Biblical Literature, Los Angeles, CA.

(04) 11/88 "The Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex: Indicators for Codicological Reconstruction", a paper read at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature; Chicago, IL.

(03) 08/87 "The Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex: Observations on the Ordinal System of Synaxis Sections", a paper read at the First International Conference on Manichaeism; Lund University, Sweden.

(02) 11/86 "Orality and Textuality in the Synoptic Tradition and the Gospel of Thomas Papyri ", a paper read at the Faculty Colloquium of the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.

(01) 03/84 "Mark 16:9-20: Some Previously Unrecognized Form-Critical Features", a paper read at the annual meeting of the New England Region Society of Biblical Literature, Boston.