Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Mandaeans. Liturgy and Ritual
Author: The Mandaean Book of John
Author: Charles G. HäberlPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110487861
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
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
Author: Jorunn Jacobsen BuckleyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195153855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Mandaeans were a gnostic sect that arose in the Middle East around the same time as Christianity. This text examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans and provides an introduction to the religion, showing how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa.
The Mandaeans
Author: Jorunn Jacobsen BuckleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198035008
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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.
Masbuta
Author: Eric SegelbergPublisher: Uppsala : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Baptism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Practicing Gnosis
Author: April DeConickPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004248528
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy were central features of Gnosticism, and yet Gnostic practices remain understudied. This anthology is meant to fill in this gap and address more fully what the ancient Gnostics were doing. While previously we have studied the Gnostics as intellectuals in pursuit of metaphysical knowledge, the essays in this book attempt to understand the Gnostics as ecstatics striving after religious experience, as prophets seeking revelation, as mystics questing after the ultimate God, as healers attempting to care for the sick and diseased. These essays demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. They were after religious experiences that relied on practices. The book is organized comparatively in a history-of-religions approach with sections devoted to Initiatory, Recurrent, Therapeutic, Ecstatic, and Philosophic Practices. This book celebrates the brilliant career of Birger A. Pearson.
Ginza Rba
Author: Majid Fandi Al-MubarakiPublisher:
ISBN: 9780958570527
Category : Mandaean language
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans
Author: The Discursive Fight over Religious Texts in Antiquity
Author: Anders-Christian JacobsenPublisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN: 8779346588
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The volumes of Religion and Normativity presents the latest research in three central fields. Volume I discusses the construction of normative texts in early Christianity and Judaism, including canon formation, the question of authoritative interpretation of canon, and the re-writing of normative texts in new situations. Among other things, the authors employ literary theories and memory construction.
The Haran Gawaitha
Author: E.S. DrowerPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN: 107875912X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Haran Gawaita (Mandaic "Inner Haran" or "Inner Hauran") is a Mandaean text which purports to tell the history of the Mandaeans and their arrival in Media as "Nasoraeans" from Jerusalem