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The Mandaean Book of John

Author : Charles G. Häberl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110487861
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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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 476 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.

The Mandaeans

Author : Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190288442
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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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.

From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes

Author : Kevin T. Van Bladel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004339469
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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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 analyzes primary sources in Syriac, Mandaic, and Arabic to clarify the early history of Mandaeism. This religion, along with several other, shorter-lived new faiths, such as Kentaeism, began in a period of state-sponsored persecution of Babylonian paganism. The Mandaeans would survive to become one of many groups known as Ṣābians by their Muslim neighbors. Rather than seeking to elucidate the history of Mandaeism in terms of other religions to which it can be related, this study approaches the religion through the history of its social contexts.

Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran

Author : Lady Ethel Stefana Drower
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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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:

The Mandaeans

Author : Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198035008
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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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.

The Mandaeans

Author : Edmondo F. Lupieri
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802833500
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Mandaeans written by Edmondo F. Lupieri and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is made even more valuable by the inclusion of an extensive anthology of translated Mandaean texts, complete with notes. This collection of writings presents the spiritual world of Mandaeanism with fragments of mythical-theological texts and pages of ethical and historical meditations."--BOOK JACKET.

Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms

Author : Gerard Russell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471114724
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms written by Gerard Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in various forms for thousands of years. These religions represent the last vestiges of the magnificent civilizations in ancient history: Persia, Babylon, Egypt in the time of the Pharaohs. Their followers have learned how to survive foreign attacks and the perils of assimilation. But today, with the Middle East in turmoil, they face greater challenges than ever before. In Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, former diplomat Gerard Russell ventures to the distant, nearly impassable regions where these mysterious religions still cling to survival. He lives alongside the Mandaeans and Ezidis of Iraq, the Zoroastrians of Iran, the Copts of Egypt, and others. He learns their histories, participates in their rituals, and comes to understand the threats to their communities. Historically a tolerant faith, Islam has, since the early 20th century, witnessed the rise of militant, extremist sects. This development, along with the rippling effects of Western invasion, now pose existential threats to these minority faiths. And as more and more of their youth flee to the West in search of greater freedoms and job prospects, these religions face the dire possibility of extinction. Drawing on his extensive travels and archival research, Russell provides an essential record of the past, present, and perilous future of these remarkable religions.

The Haran Gawaitha

Author : E.S. Drower
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 107875912X
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (787 download)

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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 21 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

John the Baptist and the Last Gnostics

Author : Andrew Phillip Smith
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780289138
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book John the Baptist and the Last Gnostics written by Andrew Phillip Smith and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there still Gnostics and can their roots be chased back to John the Baptist? Among the casualties of the western intervention in Iraq and the recent activities of ISIS are the Mandeans of Southern Iraq. These peace-loving people are now fleeing to the west . They are the last Gnostics, the only surviving remnant of the ancient sects who taught the direct knowledge of God, created their own gospels and myths and were persecuted as heretical by the church in the second and third centuries. The Mandeans place weekly river baptisms at the centre of their religious life and the primary exemplar of their religion is none other than John the Baptist. What is the real history of this mysterious and long lived sect? Can the Mandean peoples really be traced back to the first century? And who was John the Baptist? This book follows the history of the Mandeans from their present plight back through their earliest encounters with the West, their place in Islamic counties, their possible influence on the Templars, back to their origins as a first century baptismal sect connected to John the Baptist and beyond.

The Knowledge of Life

Author : Sinasi Gündüz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge of Life written by Sinasi Gündüz and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume in the new series of supplements to the Journal of Semitic Studies is a survey of the historical and religious problems involved in the interconnection between the Sabians of the Qur'an, the Mandeans of southern Iraq, and the "Sabians" of Harran in northern Mesopotamia. It offers an important examination of traditional assertions by some that the Mandaeans and by others that the Harranians should be recognized as the "Sabians" of the Qur'an, the people granted protected status in Islamic law.

Ginza Rba

Author : Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958570527
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Ginza Rba written by Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr

Author : Charles G. Häberl
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447058742
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr written by Charles G. 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.

The Mandaeans—Baptizers of Iraq and Iran

Author : Karen Baker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498246206
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Mandaeans—Baptizers of Iraq and Iran written by Karen Baker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of a complex belief system that have sustained the Mandaeans in their centuries-old native lands in Iraq and Iran have been collapsing before their eyes. This little-known Gnostic sect has been hidden from global awareness until now. With a passion for the obscure, Karen Baker has delved into this secret sect, exploring the effects of the turmoil they have faced in their homeland, and are now facing in Diaspora. The Iraqi and Iranian Mandaeans have fled their homes with nothing more than the clothing on their backs, being thrust into the status of refugees, watching their traditions and cultures crumble as they encounter new lands and new cultures. This book discusses the potential receptivity of Mandaeans to Christianity through several perspectives including an evaluation of their relationship to the Gnosticism of the first through third centuries CE as well as its syncretic adaptations to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It will be of interest to those interested in little-known cultures from a historical and religious perspective; those involved with refugees and immigrants; and those who desire to understand the foundational beliefs of Mandaeism.

Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandaean John-Book

Author : G. R. S. Mead
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849621774
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandaean John-Book written by G. R. S. Mead and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the history and basics of Gnosticism, written by Wilhelm Bousset * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices The main materials contained in these pages will certainly be new for the vast majority of readers. Moreover the Mandæan narratives, legends and discourses are not only interesting because of their own distinctive matter and manner, but they are also arresting; for they raise a number of problems, some of which are far-reaching and one is fraught with implications of immense importance. The definite solutions of these problems, however, lie in the future, and the most important of them will perhaps never be reached; for, in the absence of straightforward historical information, general agreement on any subject that concerns Christian origins immediately or even indirectly is now well-nigh a psychological impossibility.

A Mandaic Dictionary

Author : E. S. Drower
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725272040
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A Mandaic Dictionary written by E. S. Drower and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secret Adam

Author : E. S. Drower
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532697635
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Adam written by E. S. Drower and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mandaean Rivers Scroll (Diwan Nahrawatha)

Author : Brikha H.S. Nasoraia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000217566
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Mandaean Rivers Scroll (Diwan Nahrawatha) written by Brikha H.S. Nasoraia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features detailed analysis of an ancient secret scroll from the Middle East known as the Rivers Scroll or Diwan Nahrawatha, providing valuable insight into the Gnostic Mandaean religion. This important scroll offers a window of understanding into the Mandaean tradition, with its intricate worldview, ritual life, mysticism and esoteric qualities, as well as intriguing art. The text of the Rivers Scroll and its artistic symbolism have never before been properly analyzed and interpreted, and the significance of the document has been lost in scholarship. This study includes key segments translated into English for the first time and gives the scroll the worthy place it deserves in the history of the Mandaean tradition. It will be of interest to scholars of Gnosticism, religious studies, archaeology and Semitic languages.