The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern People
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.
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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.
AbbreviationsIBeginnings1Introduction: The Mandaean World32From Iraq to California: Grains of Musk213Sitil: An Example of "the Image Above and Below"354Ruha405Miriai49IIRituals6To the River: In Iran, April 1996597Baptism (Masbuta)808The Tabahata Masiqta879The Initiation of the Tarmida98IIINative Hermeneutics10The Ducks That Came to the Marshes: New York11311An Inscribed Mandaean Body13012Interpretive Strategies in The Scroll of Exalted Kingship13413Mandaean Language Games and Obstacles14414Thousands of Names, Hundreds of Lineages153Frouzanda Mahrad161Glossary165Notes171Bibliography191Index197