The Mandaeans : ancient texts and modern people
The Mandaeans were a gnostic sect that arose in the Middle East around the same time as Christianity. This text examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans and provides an introduction to the religion, showing how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa
1 online resource (xv, 200 pages) : illustrations, map.
9780195153859, 0195153855
57385973
I: BEGINNINGS: Introduction: The Mandaean World
From Iraq to California: grains of musk
Sitil: an example of "the image Above and Below"
Ruha
Mirai
II: RITUALS: To the river: In Iran, April 1996
Baptism (Masbuta)
The Tabahata Masiqta
The imitation of the Tarmida
III: NATIVE HERMENEUTICS: The ducks that come to the marshes: New York
An inscribed Mandaean body
Interpretative strategies in The Scroll of Exalted Kingship
Mandaean language: games and obstacles
Thousand of names, hundreds of lineages
Frouzanda Mahrad