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This articles is a list of Mandaean scriptures (Mandaean religious texts written in Classical Mandaic). Well-known texts include the Ginza Rba (also known as the Sidra Rabbā) and the Qolastā. Texts for Mandaean priests include The 1012 Questions, among others. Some, like the Ginza Rba, are codices (bound books), while others, such as the various diwan (illustrated scrolls) are scrolls.

History

Little is known about the redactors or authors of the texts. The contents date to both pre-Islamic and Islamic periods. The oldest Mandaean magical text is dated to the 4th and 5th centuries CE.

Main scriptures

Various manuscripts

  • Tafsir Pagra
  • Drašâ d-Malkuta 'Laitha
  • Alma Risaiia Rabbā
  • Alma Risaiia Zuta
  • Diwan d-Nahrauta, Book of Rivers. A description of the Šum-Kušţa World.
  • Šarh Traša d-Mandi
  • Diwan d-Qabin d-Šišlam Rabbā
  • The mass (masiqta) of Šitil, Dabahata and Dukrania
  • Diwan Qadaha Rabbā, Book of the Great Lord
  • Šarh d-Ptaha d-Bimanda
  • Šarh d-Masiqta Dakia, The Oil Sacrament
  • Šarh d-Zidqa Brikha
  • Safta d-Masihfan Rabbā
  • Šarh d-Maṣbuta Rabtia d-Tlaima Usitin Maṣbutiata
  • Niania d-Maṣbuta
  • Šums d-Mara d-Rabuta
  • Diwan Razii d-Bhathia
  • Diwan u-Dmuth Kušta
  • Diwan Dasfir Owaljē
  • Diwan Alma Rišaia Rabbā
  • Diwan Alma Rišaia Zuţa
  • Bšumaihun d-hiia rbia
  • Sidra d-Nišmatha
  • Qmaha Šafta d-Dahlulia
  • Niania
  • Zarazti
  • Bišrati
  • Qmaha d-Hibil Ziwa
  • various Masktha
  • various Qmahas and Zraztas
  • Impurity and Healing (Mandaean?)
  • Burial, Postulancy and Priesthood (Mandaean?)
  • Regarding the first baptism of the postulant-exhortations (Mandaean?)
  • Šafta d-mihla, The Scroll of Salt (Bodleian Library Ms. DC 40)
  • Šarh d-Parwānājē, or Panšā (Bodleian Library MS. DC 24): The Parwanaja Festival. The manuscript is complete at the beginning and in the middle.
  • Šarh d-Tabahata (Bodleian Library MS. DC 42)
  • Šarh d-Zihrun-Raza-Kasia (Bodleian Library MS. DC 27)
  • Codex Petermann I, 155; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
  • London Scroll A; British Museum. Šarh d-Traṣa d-Taga d-Šišlam Rabbā
  • London Scroll B; British Museum
  • Bleitafeln Klein; British Museum
  • Oxford Scroll G; Bodleian Library. Two texts for repelling evil spirits.
  • Codex Marsh. 691 (Oxford); Bodleian Library
  • Code Sabéen 8; Bibliothèque nationale de France
  • Code Sabéen 15; Bibliothèque nationale de France
  • Code Sabéen 16 (or the Paris Diwan); Bibliothèque nationale de France
  • Code Sabéen 24 and 27; Bibliothèque nationale de France. Contains incantations.
  • Code Sabéen 25; Bibliothèque nationale de France. This tractate is a copy of the Asfar Malwāšē. However, it contains a longer appendix of more recent date.
  • Das Leidener Glossar; formerly held in Amsterdam

See also

Literature

  • E. S. Dower: The Book of the zodiac = Sfar malwašia: D. C. 31. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1949.
  • E. S. Dower: Mandaeans. Liturgy and ritual. The canonical prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Translated with notes. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1959.
  • E. S. Dower: Haran Gawaita. The Haran Gawaita and the Baptism of Hibil-Ziwa: the Mandaic text reproduced, together with translation, notes and commentary. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1953.
  • E. S. Dower: Alf trisar ŝuialia. The thousand and twelve questions: a Mandaean text, edited in transliteration and translation. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1960.
  • E. S. Drower: Diwan Abatur. ... or progress through the purgatories. Text with translation notes and appendices. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 1950 (Studi e testi. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 151, ZDB-ID 762276-4).
  • M. Nicolas Siouffi: Études sur la Religion/Des Soubbas ou sabéens, leurs dogmes, mœurs par. Paris 1880, ISBN 9781147041224
  • J. de Morgan: Mission scientifique en Perse par J. De Morgan. Tome V. Études linguistiques. Deuxième partie. Textes mandaïtes publiés par J. de Morgan avec une notice sur les Mandéens par Cl. Huart. Paris, 1904
  • Zotenberg: Catalogues des manuscriptes syriaques et sabéens (mandaïtes)
  • H. Pognon: Inscriptions mandaïtes des coupes de Khouabir Paris 1898–1899, Teil 1–3
  • Mark Lidzbarski: Ginzā. Der Schatz oder Das große Buch der Mandäer. Göttingen, 1925
  • Mark Lidzbarski: Das Johannesbuch der Mandäer. Gießen: Töpelmann, 1915, 1966.
  • Mark Lidzbarski: Das mandäische Seelenbuch, in: ZDMG 61 (1907), 689–698
  • Richard Reitzenstein: Das mandäische Buch des Herrn der Größe und die Evangelienüberlieferung. Heidelberg-Winter, 1919
  • Julius Euting: Qolastā oder Gesänge und Lehren von der Taufe und dem Ausgang der Seele. Stuttgart, 1867
  • Dr. B. Poertner: Mandäischer Diwan. Eine photographische Aufnahme; Straßburg, 1904
  • Dr. W. Brandt: Mandäische Schriften übersetzt und erläutert. Göttingen, 1893
  • Julius Heinrich Petermann: Porta linguarum orientalium. Bd. 1–4, 6., Berlin 1840–72
  • Julius Heinrich Petermann: Reisen im Orient. 2 Bde. Leipzig, 1865
  • Theodor Nöldeke: Mandäische Grammatik. Halle, 1875
  • Werner Foerster: A Selection of Gnostic Texts. Oxford, 1974
  • Kurt Rudolph: Theogonie, Kosmogonie und Anthropogonie in den mandäischen Schriften. Eine literarkritische und traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1965 (Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 88, ZDB-ID 528176-3), (Zugleich: Leipzig, Univ., Phil. Habil.-Schr., 1961).
  • Kurt Rudolph, Art. Mandaeism In: David Noel Freedman (Hrsg.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Doubleday 1992, ISBN 3-438-01121-2, Bd. 4, S. 500–502.
  • Rudolf Macuch: Und das Leben ist siegreich Mandäistische Forschungen 1, Harrassowitz Verlag 2008
  • Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley: The Colophons in the Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Jan., 1992), 33–50.
  • Willis Barnstone: The other Bible. Harper, 1984
  • Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon: Mandäer. 1905–1909

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