Manichaeism

=== Coptic primary sources ===
Additionally, in 1930, German researchers in Egypt found a large body of Manichaean works in Coptic. Though these were also damaged, hundreds of complete pages survived and, beginning in 1933, were analyzed and published in Berlin before [[World War II]], by German scholars such as [[Hans Jakob Polotsky]].<ref>[[Hans Jakob Polotsky]] and Karl Schmidt, ''Ein Mani-Fund in Ägypten, Original-Schriften des Mani und seiner Schüler''. Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften 1933.</ref> Some of these Coptic Manichaean writings were lost during the war.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mirecki |first1=Paul Allan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MjHagtUE5toC |title=Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources |last2=BeDuhn |first2=Jason David |date=31 December 1996 |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|Brill]] |isbn=978-90-04-10760-1 |page=vii |language=en}}</ref>