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Preface to the Italian Edition
Preface to the American Edition
Prologue
1. The Mandaeans
The Ideas
Mandaeanism
The Literature
List of the Principal Published Mandaean Texts, Together with Information on Some Unpublished Ones 5
Bibliographical Suggestions 59
2. The Mandaeans and the West: A History of Interaction
The Rediscovery
The Mission 83
The Failure 105
The Erudite and Travelers 110
Professors and Diplomats
The \"Mandaean Question\"
3. Legends and History
Between Egypt and India
Jerusalem, John the Baptist, and the Others
Genealogies of Scribes 165
1. Abstracts of Theology
2. The First Man
3. From the Creation to the Flood
4. The Religions of Others
5. The Jews, Jerusalem, and Miriai
6. John, a True Mandaean
7. Jesus, the \"False Messiah\"
8. The \"Son of the Arab Butcher\"
Glossary
Index
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This book is also the first attempt to reconstruct a reliable and \"internal\" history of Mandaeanism,
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So it was with feelings of hope mixed with uncertainty that our Mandaeans, their leaders and their b
Memories of past tragic times must have come to mind, for as late as the nineteenth century whole vi
Luckily, nothing of that nature happened again, but only a short while after the encounter describ
Yet just who are the Mandaeans, and how many of them are there? There is no easy answer, partly beca
As far as the Mandaeans who remained in their traditional homelands are concerned, throughout the en
To that world, as portrayed by Lady Drower at the very limits of survival, we shall thus be referrin
The first of our many uncertainties regarding the Mandaeans concerns the name itself, for we cannot
Things are complicated further by the apparent connection between the words nasurariia and Nazoraean
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of the Carmelite mission in Basra, was usually quite well informed regarding the social and broadly
We have no certain information regarding women in the priesthood, and it would seem that they are ev
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The word iardna must in some way be related to the name of the river Jordan, pronounced \"larden\" in
Concerning Mandaean rituals, then, the ones that they are most famous for, and from which their Arab
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