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The Great Stem of Souls: Reconstructing Mandaean History
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Mandaean priests, representatives of a religious heritage that can be traced back to Late Antique Mesopotamia, still copy their ancient literature by hand. The Great Stem of Souls is a study of the colophons – postscripts at the end of each text – that are appended to most Mandaean documents. A study of the contents of the colophons provides a framework for reconstructing Mandaean history.
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Mandaeism is the only ancient Gnostic religion surviving to the present day from antiquity.
“Mandaeism is the only ancient Gnostic religion surviving to the present day from antiquity.”
From Probing the Relationships Between Mandaeans (the Followers of John the Baptist), Early Christians, and Manichaeans (2024) · cites this paper as Buckley 2010
Mandaeism is not a Christian phenomenon, and its Gnostic aspects, though eclectic, basically belong outside Christian influences.
“Mandaeism is not a Christian phenomenon, and its Gnostic aspects, though eclectic, basically belong outside Christian influences (cf. Macuch 1971, pp. 174-92; Buckley 2010, pp. 14-15).”
From Probing the Relationships Between Mandaeans (the Followers of John the Baptist), Early Christians, and Manichaeans (2024) · cites this paper as Buckley 2010, pp. 14-15
Buckley concludes that the Mandaeans broke decisively with all larger religious frameworks to be only themselves, set apart from Jews, Christians, and others.
“but broke decisively with all larger religious frameworks to be only themselves, set apart from Jews, Christians, and others.”
From Probing the Relationships Between Mandaeans (the Followers of John the Baptist), Early Christians, and Manichaeans (2024) · cites this paper as Buckley 2010
Buckley concludes that the Mandaeans had no need for political power or statehood and did not aspire to liberate Jerusalem or any other centre.
“The Mandaeans had no need for political power or statehood and did not aspire to 'liberate' Jerusalem or any other centre”
From Probing the Relationships Between Mandaeans (the Followers of John the Baptist), Early Christians, and Manichaeans (2024) · cites this paper as Buckley 2010
Both copyists R. Yaḥyā Yuhānā, son of Rām, and R. Mhattam, son of Yaḥyā Bayān, are known from the Diwān Harrān Gawaytā and appear to belong to the seventeenth century.
“Both copyists are known from the transmission history of the Diwān Harrān Gawaytā ( dc 9 and 36), of which they are the earliest copyists of record, and they appear to belong to the seventeenth century (Buckley 2010: 291).”
From “Die Geheimnisse der Vorvater”: Edition, Ubersetzung und Kommentierung einer esoterischen mandaischen Handschrift aus der Bodleian Library Oxford. By Bogdan Burtea (2020) · cites this paper as Buckley 2010: 291
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Nasoraia, B. H. S. (2024) · Religions · doi:10.3390/rel16010014
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- Authors
- Buckley, J.
- Corresponding author
- Buckley, Jorunn
- Venue
- Gorgias Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Gorgias Press
- Published
- 2010-12-31
- OpenAlex
- W4252422147
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- 4
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- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.19
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- book
- Language
- nl
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Gorgias Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient Near East History
- Keywords
- Mandaeanism, colophons, Mandaean literature, manuscript copying
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