Mandaeans
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...dualism suggest a Gnostic origin, but unlike the Gnostics...practices were influenced by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, they...resembles Parsi ritual meals. The origin of the Mandaeans is not known...recent scholarship places their origin in Palestine or Syria. Their...Gnostic Ethics and Mandaean Origins (1970...