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The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern People » (New Edition)
Authors: Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
ISBN-13: 9780195153859, ISBN-10: 0195153855
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: An American Academy of Religion Book
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
Bowdoin College
Book Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
| Abbreviations | ||
| I | Beginnings | |
| 1 | Introduction: The Mandaean World | 3 |
| 2 | From Iraq to California: Grains of Musk | 21 |
| 3 | Sitil: An Example of "the Image Above and Below" | 35 |
| 4 | Ruha | 40 |
| 5 | Miriai | 49 |
| II | Rituals | |
| 6 | To the River: In Iran, April 1996 | 59 |
| 7 | Baptism (Masbuta) | 80 |
| 8 | The Tabahata Masiqta | 87 |
| 9 | The Initiation of the Tarmida | 98 |
| III | Native Hermeneutics | |
| 10 | The Ducks That Came to the Marshes: New York | 113 |
| 11 | An Inscribed Mandaean Body | 130 |
| 12 | Interpretive Strategies in The Scroll of Exalted Kingship | 134 |
| 13 | Mandaean Language Games and Obstacles | 144 |
| 14 | Thousands of Names, Hundreds of Lineages | 153 |
| Frouzanda Mahrad | 161 | |
| Glossary | 165 | |
| Notes | 171 | |
| Bibliography | 191 | |
| Index | 197 |
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