The Mandaean Book of John - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mandaean Book of John write by Charles G. Häberl. This book was released on 2019-11-18. The Mandaean Book of John available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.
The Mandaeans
The Mandaeans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mandaeans write by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley. This book was released on 2002-11-14. The Mandaeans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes
From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes write by Kevin T. Van Bladel. This book was released on 2017-02-06. From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historical study argues that the Mandaean religion originated under Sasanid rule in the fifth century, not earlier as has been widely accepted. It analyzes primary sources in Syriac, Mandaic, and Arabic to clarify the early history of Mandaeism. This religion, along with several other, shorter-lived new faiths, such as Kentaeism, began in a period of state-sponsored persecution of Babylonian paganism. The Mandaeans would survive to become one of many groups known as Ṣābians by their Muslim neighbors. Rather than seeking to elucidate the history of Mandaeism in terms of other religions to which it can be related, this study approaches the religion through the history of its social contexts.
Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran
Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran write by Lady Ethel Stefana Drower. This book was released on 1937. Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Mandaeans
The Mandaeans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mandaeans write by Edmondo F. Lupieri. This book was released on 2001-11-07. The Mandaeans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The book is made even more valuable by the inclusion of an extensive anthology of translated Mandaean texts, complete with notes. This collection of writings presents the spiritual world of Mandaeanism with fragments of mythical-theological texts and pages of ethical and historical meditations."--BOOK JACKET.
