Mandaean studies : Select writers..

The Ginza Raba ("Great Treasure")

written in a dialect of East Aramaic known as Mandaean

http://www.mandaeans.org/frameset.htm

 

 E.S. Drower and R. Macuch. A Mandaic Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.

pp.491, 2 cols. SL-UK-1

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Mandaean bibliography

Svend  Aage Pallis (1894- ADD)..

Mandaean Bibliography. 1560-1930. Rep. Amsterdam: Philo Press, 1974. Pbk. 227pp. + 228-240/ Index.  xi, 240 pp. ; 23 cm Essay on Mandaean bibliography, 1560-1930, chronologically arranged, with annotations and an index preceded by an extensive critical and historical introduction on the Mandaeans, their language and literature and on Mandaean research up to 1930 

An amazingly learned piece of bibliographical scholarship with a lengthy (= pp.1-67) and erudite introduction  (SL).

Kurt Rudolph and Eric Segelberg.

Zur Sprache und Literatur der Mandäer / Rudolf Macuch; mit Beiträgen von Kurt Rudolph und Eric Segelberg. Berlin ; New York : de Gruyter, 1976. xii, 263 p. : port. ; 24 cm. (= Studia Mandaica, vol.1). "Mandäische Bibliographie seit 1965": p. [245]-250

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Mandaean studies : Select writers..

 

 

 

 

Drower, Ethel, Stefana (Lady)   (1879-    )

  • My Sudan year, by E.S. Stevens. New York, G.H. Doran co. [1913] x, 305 pp. front., pl. 23 cm

  • By Tigris and Euphrates, by E. S. Stevens, with 71 illustrations. London, Hurst & Blackett, ltd., 1923

    •  Folk-tales of Iraq, set down and translated from the vernacular by E. S. Stevens. With an introduction by Sir Arnold Wilson. London: Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1931

    • The canonical prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Translated with notes by E. S. Drower Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1959.  viii, 324 pp., 495 columns. 25 cm

    • Water into wine: A study of ritual idiom in the Middle East. London: Murray, 1956. 1st ed.  HBk. 273 pp. 18 Plates  23 cm

    • The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran : Their Cults, Customs, Magic Legends and Folklore. Leiden: Brill, 1962 HBk.  xxv, 438 pp., [31] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., plans ; 23 cm
       

     

    • The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran: Their Cults, Customs, Magic Legends, and Folklore
      New Introduction by Jorunn J. Buckley PBk. xxvi + 438pp. 29 Illustrations. 2002

      This edition is a reprint of the Oxford ed. of 1937 and has  xxv, 438 pp., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm

    • The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran, Their Cults, Customs, Magic Legends, and Folklore... Rep. New (new) Introd. J. J. Buckley. Gorgias Press, 2002. 540 pp. ISBN: 1931956499.

    • A Mandaean Book of Black Magic
      Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, October, 1943. 32pp. Near fine yellow paper wrappers

    • A Mandean Book of Black Magic.
      Holmes Publishing Group LLC New ed. PBk.

    • The Alf Trisar Suialia (The Thousand and Twelve Questions)
      Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, London, April, 1941. 25pp. Thin yellow card covers.

    • The Thousand and Twelve Questions
      Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1960. 1st Edition. vii, 300pp with a 64pp booklet in folder

    • Shafta d Pishra d Ainia
      Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, London 1937 & 1938. 42pp. Two articles bound in one. Thin yellow card covers. A Mandean magical text translated and transliterated by Drower.

    • The Coronation of the Great Sislam Being a description of the rite of the coronation of a mandaean priest according to the ancient canon
      Leiden: Brill 1962. HBk.  xviii+35+9pp.

    • The Haran Gawaita and the Baptism of Hibil-Ziwa; the Mandaic text reproduced together with translation, notes and commentary by E. S. Drower. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1953. xi, 96pp. 26cm = Studi e testi  176 / Studi e testi (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana), 176.

    • A Mandaic dictionary.  by E. S. Drower and R. Macuch. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1963. xi, 491 pp.

    • A Pair of Nasoraean Commentaries. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1963 Green cloth, gold lettering...Two Nasoraean Commentaries: I. Alma Risaia Rba (DC 41, Bodleian Library)The Great "First World"; II. Alma Risaia Zuta (DC 48, Bodleian Library) The Lesser "First World"; Facsimile of the original text two separate scrolls+ cardboard cylinder.
       

    • Ed. The Thousand and Twelve Questions
       Berlin,: Akademie Verlag 1960. 1st Edition. vii, 300pp + 64pp booklet in rear pocket.

    • Trans. Explanatory Commentary on the Marriage-Ceremony of the Great Sislam (Sarh d Qabin d Sislam Rba). Rome: Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 1950 HBk. Series: Biblica et Orientalia, N.12. Green paper-covered boards

    • Diwan Abatur ... or, Progress through the purgatories. Text with translation, notes and appendices, by E. S. Drower. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1950 = Studi e testi (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana)  151. 44pp.  26cm.


    • The Book of the Zodiac (Sfar Malwasia). London: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1949 HBk.

    Gündüz,  Ş.

    Review see W. Arnold - in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes : WZKM / Institut für Orientalistik, vol. 87, (1997),  396

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    Buckley, Jorunn Jackonsen, J,

    • Female Fault & Fulfilment in Gnosticism. Hbk. 1986 ISBN- 0807816965

    • [1993] The Scroll of Exalted Kingship: Diwan Malkuta 'Laita. HBk.  American Oriental Society, 1993 ISBN- 0940490838

    • [2002] Mandaeans: Ancient Texts & Modern People. HBk. 2002  ISBN- 0195153855

    • [E.S.Drower], The Mandaeans of Iraq & Iran: Their Cults, Customs, Magic Legends, & Folklore, PBk. 2002  /  1931956499


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    Lidzbarski, Mark, (1868-1928)

    • Mandäische Liturgien / mitgeteilt, übersetzt und erklärt von Mark. Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1970 . Reprint. Originally published: Berlin : Weidmann, 1920. In series: Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse ; n.F., Bd. 17, 1

    • Mandaean text transliterated into Hebrew characters, with German translation. Includes the collection known as Qolasta, and the "Oxforder Sammlung" comprising the text of ms. Marsh. 691 in the Bodleian Library

     

    Edmondo Lupieri,

    • The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., Grand Rapids, MI, 2001, 6" x 9", hardcover, 296 pages, $25.00, ISBN 0-8028-3924-X. Sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    Rudolph, Kurt,

    • Theogonie, Kosmogonie und Anthropogonie in den mandäischen Schriften; eine literarkritische und traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1965. 393 pp. 25 cm (Series = Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testamentes. Der ganzen Reihe 88. Heft).

    • Mandaeism (Iconography of religions : Section 21) Leiden : Brill, 1978, x, 77 p. : with ill. ; 26 cm

    • Erbhygienische Untersuchungen an Hilfsschulkindern in Recklinghausen / Kurt Rudolph. Thesis (doctoral)--Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 1938

    • Antike Baptisten : zu den Überlieferungen über Frühjüdische und -christliche Taufsekten / Kurt Rudolph (Sitzungsberichte der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Philologisch-historische Klasse, 0138-3957 ; Bd. 121, Heft 4). Berlin : Akademie-Verlag, 1981.37 pp. : chart ; 23 cm

    • Gnosis : the nature and history of gnosticism / Kurt Rudolph; translation edited by Robert McLachlan Wilson, San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1983.xii, 411 pp., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. (some col.); 22 cm

    • Geschichte und Probleme der Religionswissenschaft / von KurtRudolph. Leiden,; New York : E.J.Brill, 1992. xiv, 443 p. ; 25 cm

    • Historical fundamentals and the study of religions : Haskell lectures delivered at the University of Chicago / Kurt Rudolph; with an introduction by Joseph M. Kitagawa, New York, NY : Macmillan, c. 1985. xiii, 123 pp.; 25 cm.

    • Gnosis und spätantike Religionsgeschichte : gesammelte Aufsätze / von Kurt Rudolph. Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996. xii, 783 p. ; 24 cm. + 1 index (66 p. ; 24 cm.). Series  = Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies.

    • Wellhausen als Arabist. Berlin : Akademie-Verlag, 1983  57, [3] pp; 23 cm. Sitzungsberichte der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-Historische Klasse ; Bd. 123, Heft 5

    Tahvildar, Abbas,

    • Baptists of Iran.  Tehran:  PUB=? ,  2003. English + French + Persian. HBk. 174pp. (33 X21cm)

    This new, lavishly photographed English + French +Persian  seven chapter book in the series `Iran, Motherland of Religions', focuses on the about 25,000 Sabbehi (Baptist), Mandaeans (allegedly followers of John the Baptist) who mostly live near the river Karoun in Iranian Khuzistan.

    Waldemar Sundberg,

    • Kushta: A Monograph on a Principal Word in Mandean Texts: The Ascending Soul. The New Society of Letters: Lund. Chatwell-Bratt Ltd. 1994. ISBN 0862383722.