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Book Synopsis The Mandaean Book of John by : Charles G. Häberl
Download or read book The Mandaean Book of John written by Charles G. Häberl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.
Book Synopsis The Mandaeans by : Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
Download or read book The Mandaeans written by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mandaeans are a Gnostic sect that arose in the middle east around the same time as Christianity. What little study of the religion there has been has focused on the ancient Mandaeans and their relation to early Christianity. Buckley examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans, who live mainly in Iran and Iraq but also in New York and San Diego. She provides a comprehensive introduction to the religion and shows how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa.
Book Synopsis From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes by : Kevin T. Van Bladel
Download or read book From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes written by Kevin T. Van Bladel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study argues that the Mandaean religion originated under Sasanid rule in the fifth century, not earlier as has been widely accepted. It studies primary sources to elucidate the early history of Mandaeism.
Book Synopsis Guardians of the Gate by : Nathaniel Deutsch
Download or read book Guardians of the Gate written by Nathaniel Deutsch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the phenomenon of angelic vice regency in Late Antiquity. It comparatively examines figures from Judaism, Mandaeism, and Gnosticism, shedding new light, in particular, on the Jewish angel Metatron and the Mandaean light-being Abathur.
Book Synopsis religious of the past by : C.J. Bleeker
Download or read book religious of the past written by C.J. Bleeker and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1988 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mandaeans by : Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
Download or read book The Mandaeans written by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mandaeans are a Gnostic sect that arose in the middle east around the same time as Christianity. What little study of the religion there has been has focused on the ancient Mandaeans and their relation to early Christianity. Buckley examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans, who live mainly in Iran and Iraq but also in New York and San Diego. She provides a comprehensive introduction to the religion and shows how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa.
Download or read book Gnosis written by Robert Haardt and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1971 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of gnostic writings.
Book Synopsis Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran by : Lady Ethel Stefana Drower
Download or read book Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran written by Lady Ethel Stefana Drower and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1937 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Haran Gawaitha written by E.S. Drower and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haran Gawaita (Mandaic "Inner Haran" or "Inner Hauran") is a Mandaean text which purports to tell the history of the Mandaeans and their arrival in Media as "Nasoraeans" from Jerusalem
Book Synopsis What is Gnosticism? by : Karen L. King
Download or read book What is Gnosticism? written by Karen L. King and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of gnosticism examines the various ways early Christians strove to define themselves in a pluralistic Roman society, while questioning the traditional ideas of heresy and orthodoxy that have previously influenced historians.
Book Synopsis The Discursive Fight over Religious Texts in Antiquity by : Anders-Christian Jacobsen
Download or read book The Discursive Fight over Religious Texts in Antiquity written by Anders-Christian Jacobsen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes of Religion and Normativity presents the latest research in three central fields. Volume I discusses the construction of normative texts in early Christianity and Judaism, including canon formation, the question of authoritative interpretation of canon, and the re-writing of normative texts in new situations. Among other things, the authors employ literary theories and memory construction.
Download or read book Mandaeism written by Kurt Rudolph and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gnostic Imagination by : Deutsch
Download or read book The Gnostic Imagination written by Deutsch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to survey and systematically evaluate the history of scholarship on the relationship between Gnosticism and Merkabah mysticism. In addition, it offers new interpretations on primary sources and suggests topics for future research.
Book Synopsis Mandaean Studies by : Svend Aage Frederik Dichmann Pallis
Download or read book Mandaean Studies written by Svend Aage Frederik Dichmann Pallis and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr by : Charles Häberl
Download or read book The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr written by Charles Häberl and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Mandaic is the only surviving dialect of Aramaic to be recognized as a direct descendant of any of the classical dialects of Late Antiquity. The Mandaeans who speak it are adherents of a pre-Islamic Gnostic sect, the only such sect to survive to the present day. As such, Mandaic may be considered as both a living language of the modern Middle East and also the vehicle of one of the great religious traditions of that region, along with Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian. Unfortunately, Neo-Mandaic is severely endangered, and all signs indicate that the current generation of speakers is likely to be the last. As a description of an endangered language, this work addresses one of the chief concerns of linguists in the 21st century, namely the impending loss of the majority of the world's languages and the immense threat to both linguistic and cultural diversity that it represents. This grammar is the fi rst account of a previously undocumented dialect of Neo-Mandaic, and most thorough description of any Neo-Mandaic dialect. In addition to a description of its phonology, inflectional paradigms, and morphosyntax, it includes a collection of ten texts, transcribed and translated, as well as a concise lexicon of the vocabulary found within these texts.
Book Synopsis Mandaeism. [Mit Fig.] by : Kurt Rudolph
Download or read book Mandaeism. [Mit Fig.] written by Kurt Rudolph and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1978 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ethnic Religious Minorities in Iran by : S. Behnaz Hosseini
Download or read book Ethnic Religious Minorities in Iran written by S. Behnaz Hosseini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the experiences of the ethnic and religious minorities of Iran, such as Jews, Yarsani, Christian, Sabean Mandaean, Bahai, Zoroastrian, Baluch, Kurd, and others and provides a historical overview of their position in society before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution and highlights their contribution to the country's history, diversity, and development. It also focuses on the historical, sociopolitical, and economic factors that affected the minorities' development during the last century. Author Behnaz Hosseini has shaped this book with authentic material and has assembled the experiences and opinions of academics of diverse backgrounds who approach the minorities’ issues in Iran in a constructive and ingenious way: from debating their efforts to preserve their identity and cultural heritage and ensure their survival to discussing their relations with the majority and other minorities, the role of religion in everyday life, and their contribution to the rich cultural history of Iran.