Mani and other Mesopotamian gnostics performed a ‘Semen Eucharist’ http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/41428923/VC_Semen_Eucharist_among_the_Manichaeans.docx?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1495810430&Signature=ged461CoEfRk1nIGcVu%2FRzdgQ3g%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DVC_2016_Human_Semen_Eucharist_Among_the.docx …
Maybe similar persecution of mainstream Jewish Christianity in Mesopotamia provided similar sociocultural conditions?
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I will try to piece together the timeline as I know it
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I’m just now reading the WP article on Mani (about whom I knew almost nothing previously). You know he visited Gandhara, presumably?
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Until 270, the jewish christians didn't get persecuted in Persia.
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But, I think this stuff might predate the persecutions as well
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Borborites in edessa and alexandria might be a different story
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