Dialogue against the Manichaeans

Dialogus contra Manichaeos sive Paulicianos (Κατὰ Μανιχαίων) · John of Damascus · 8th century (before 749) · treatise

Greek · domain: later-byzantine · researched 2026-11-13

Why this is in the register

Checked 2026-11-13. PG 94 prints the work as 'Dialogus contra Manicheos, sive Paulicianos, pag. 429-465' (table of contents of the volume: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_94). HOLLIS search 'John of Damascus against the Manichaeans dialogue' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,John%20of%20Damascus%20against%20the%20Manichaeans%20dialogue&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns a single relevant record, the essay collection John of Damascus: More than a Compiler (Brill, 2023), whose chapter on 'The Purpose of the Anti-Manichaean Polemic of John of Damascus' is a study, not a translation; its only translated text is an appendix on the Expositio et declaratio fidei (CPG 8078). A Crossref query (https://api.crossref.org/works?query.bibliographic=John+of+Damascus+Manichaean+polemic) returns articles only. FOTC 37, the Popular Patristics list and ACW contain no translation.

A dialogue between an Orthodox and a Manichaean (also styled against the Paulicians). The most-studied of John's anti-heretical dialogues, but still untranslated as a whole into English.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: John of Damascus Dialogue against the Manichaeans — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_94
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Christian_Writers
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Patristics_Series
• HOLLIS search — John of Damascus against the Manichaeans dialogue
• HOLLIS search — John of Damascus more than a compiler Ables

Cite: Tergwame, “Dialogue against the Manichaeans” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-john-damascus-dialogus-contra-manichaeos