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The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern People

by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley

Pages: 200

Contributors: Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 2002

Subjects: Mandaeans

Table of Contents

Title Page

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

Part I: Beginnings

1: The Mandaean World

2: Grains of Musk

3: An Example of “the Image Above and Below”

4: Ruha

5: Miriai

Part II: Rituals

6: In Iran, April 1996

7: Baptism (masbuta)

8: The Tabahata Masiqta

9: The Initiation of the Tarmida

Part III: Native Hermeneutics

10: New York

11: An Inscribed Mandaean Body

12: The Scroll of Exalted Kingship

13: Mandaean Language Games and Obstacles

14: Thousands of Names, Hundreds of Lineages

Frouzanda Mahrad

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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