The Mandaeans : ancient texts and modern people
Annotation 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 contemporaryMandaeans, 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
1 online resource (xv, 200 pages) : illustrations, map
9781423763048, 9780195153859, 1423763041, 0195153855
65198443
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