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	Mandaeism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mandaeism or Mandaeanism (Mandaic: mandaiuta) is a blanket term for the religion of the Mandaeans (Classical Mandaic mandaiia, Neo-Mandaic Mandeyānā) who are the followers of Mendā d-Heyyi (Mandaic manda ḏ-hiia "Knowledge of Life").
		Mandaeism is a monotheistic religion practiced primarily in southern Iraq and the Iranian province of Khuzestan, as well as among a substantial diaspora population in Europe, Australia, and North America.
		The language in which the Mandaean religious literature was originally composed is known as Mandaic, and is a member of the Aramaic family of dialects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandaeans (1949 words)

	Mandaeism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mandaeism (Mandaic mandaiuta) is a blanket term for the religion of the Mandaeans (Classical Mandaic mandaiia, Neo-Mandaic Mandeyānā) who are the followers of Mendā d-Heyyi (Mandaic manda d-hiia "Knowledge of Life").
		Other scholars derive the term mandaiia from the name of the chief divinity, manda d-hiia, or from the word (bi)manda, which is the cultic hut in which many Mandaean ceremonies are performed (such as the baptism, which is the central sacrament of Mandaean religious life).
		John the Baptist (Mandaic iahia iuhana) is accorded a higher status in Mandaeism than in Christianity or Islam; Mandaeans maintain that Jesus was a false prophet, who perverted the teachings entrusted to him by John.
	pda.molinu.com /wiki/en/ma/Mandaeism.htm (1526 words)

	nasoraean6
		In Mandaic the word Masbuta is the term used for the baptismal rite.
		The Mandaic word Masbuta also comes from the root SBA that means to immerse, dip in, or baptize.
		Of course El is the generalized term for god and Kasia is the one part of the Mandaic term Adam Kasia.
	www.geocities.com /mandaeans/nasoraean6.html (1953 words)

	HISTORY :: Mandaean Associations Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At the time of confrontation with Islam (i.e., in the mid-seventh century) Mandaeism had already existed for centuries, originating in the Jordan/Palestinian area as an offshoot of baptismal, sectarian forms of Judaism.
		So successful was the Ganzivra that Taylor believed Mandaeism was the true religion,15 but for fear of the governor Taylor kept his insights to himself.
		That traditional Mandaeism would have perished without the agency of Yahia and his cousin Ram Zahrun does not appear to quite permeate the German scholar's consciousness.
	www.mandaeanunion.org /History/EN_History_008.htm (7056 words)

	MANDAEANS - LoveToKnow Article on MANDAEANS
		There are also fast days called mbattal (Arab), on which it is forbidden to kill any living thing or eat flesh.
		These, however, are really rest-days, as fasting is forbidden in Mandaeism.
		The year is solar, and has twelve months of thirty days each, with five intercalary days between the eighth and the ninth month.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MANDAEANS.htm (4666 words)

	Guardians of the Gate
		This exploration of the phenomenon of angelic vice regency in Late Antiquity compares figures from Judaism, Mandaeism, and Gnosticism.
		The first part of the book is devoted to the question of mediation in Late Antiquity and to the role of exegesis in the formation of vice regent myths.
		This volume is especially helpful to those interested in the connections between late antique mythologies and in particular the many parallels between Jewish mysticism and Mandaeism.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=640 (259 words)

	University of Helsinki: Department of Biblical Studies - Gnosticism and Early Christian Culture
		Some elements of it lived on in Manichaeism, Mandaeism, and some Christian movements of the Middle Ages such as the Paulicians in Macedonia (9th century), the Bogomils in Bulgaria and the Balkans (c.
		The chosen were required to observe more demanding religious rules such as strict celibacy, abstention from meat, poverty, and the duty to preach, whereas less was demanded of the laypeople once they had agreed to serve the chosen.
		The religion of the Mandaeans (probably from manda, meaning "knowledge") is considered to be the only gnostic movement which has preserved its traditions and religious practices till the present day.
	www.helsinki.fi /teol/hyel/gnosti/english/developments.html (1269 words)

	Mandaean Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism.
		This text provides a study of the relationship between Gnosticism and Merkabah mysticism.
		Although the main focus is on western Gnostic traditions and Merkabah mysticism, the book also includes relevant material from Mandaeism and from later stages of Jewish mysticism such as German Pietism and Kabbalah.
	www.mandaeanworld.com /mandaean_bibliography_book_9 (94 words)

	1996
		At Dr. Beheshti University in Tehran, I lectured on Mandaeism and its history as well as on Manichaeism, a form of extinct Christian Gnosticism historically and ideologically adjacent to Mandaeism.
		Such a conference on Mandaeism had probably never taken place in an Iranian university; in any case, it had been a long time since anyone had come from the outside to present Mandaeism to a Muslim audience.
		There were mutual words of appreciation, and I left the podium to sincere applause, with a beautiful carpet bearing the image of the mystic Rumi tucked under my arm.
	www.mandaeanworld.com /1996.html (1417 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism
		These magic formulae, which caused laughter and disgust to outsiders, are not a later and accidental corruption, but an essential part of Gnosticism, for they are found in all forms of Christian Gnosticism and likewise in Mandaeism.
		But from the first the Gnostic conception of a Saviour is more superhuman than that of popular Judaism; their Manda d'Haye, or Soter, is some immediate manifestation of the Deity, a Light-King, an Æon (Aion), and an emanation of the good God.
		As Christianity grew within and without the Roman Empire, Gnosticism spread as a fungus at its root, and claimed to be the only true form of Christianity, unfit, indeed, for the vulgar crowd, but set apart for the gifted and the elect.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06592a.htm (10684 words)

	Previous Articles
		Imitating its Lightworld models and abhorring asceticism, Mandaeism advocates marriage and fertility.
		Complex rituals for the living and the dead, vast mythologies and extensive commentaries on rituals continue to sustain the religion, which possesses an enormous literature and has remained remarkably consistent for nearly two thousand years.
		Dependent on texts meticulously copied throughout the ages in Mandaic, the religion's own, Eastern Aramaic language, Mandaeism is hierarchical, with priests as leaders in matters religious, legal and communal.
	www.ineas.org /articles/vol1Issue1.htm (1103 words)

	Islamica Community Forums - Help/Problem - Sabians
		Therefore it is relevant that the Fourth Evangelist seems to go out of its way to stress the superiority of the Incarnate Lord to the one who was merely a forerunner.
		Libraries consisting of scrolls and codices in Mandaic characters are composed chiefly of fragments of pre-Muslim compositions, collected directly after the Muslim conquest in 7th.
		Also there are those who insist that they were of the Abraham's religion and their doctrine is called Mandaeism.
	www.islamicaweb.com /forums/showthread.php?t=37694 (2552 words)

	American Oriental Society: Abstracts of Communications presented at the 207th Meeting 1
		This is a field report from a trip made possible by an Individual Research Grant from the American Academy of Religion to the Mandaeans of Iran in April 1996.
		My task in Tehran was surprisingly political-activist: since 1980, the Mandaeans have been deprived of their status as a protected religion, but a fatwa by President Khamenei last year encourages cautious optimism.
		Both Mandaeans and Muslims asked me to address this situation, and I gave lectures and conferences on Mandaeism and on the academic study of religion.
	www.umich.edu /~aos/abs971.htm (3154 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		So, for example, Zoroastrianism, Mandaeism, the Hermetic literature, the Dead Sea scrolls and even the NT itself have all been described as ‘gnostic’.
		This is one of the most hotly debated issues today, and there are two main schools of thought: one, represented by conservative British scholars such as R. McL.
		Coptic and Mandaic sources, 1974; J. Robinson (ed.), The Nag Hammadi Library in English, 1977; D. Scholer, Nag Hammadi Bibliography, 1948–1969, 1971, and annual supplements in NovT; W.
	www.shakinandshinin.org /Gnosticism-NBD.html (2339 words)

	nasoraean8
		It is from Origen that we learn of a religious sect that is centered on “Mariamne”.
		The Elchasaite base thelogy used Mandaeism as one of it legs but added strict Jewish laws to that base.
		The notion that the term Elchasai may be derived from the Mandaic word Kasia and the generic word El deserves much attention into the formation of the Elchasite theology.
	www.geocities.com /mandaeans/nasoraean8.html (527 words)

	GNOSTICISM (Gr. yvwvcs,... - Online Information article about GNOSTICISM (Gr. yvwvcs,... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the case of other systems, owing to the inexactness of our information, we are unable to decide; the later systems of Mandaeism and Manichaeanism, so closely related to Gnosticism, are also based upon a decided dualism.
		And even when there is an attempt at reconciliation, it is still quite clear how strong was the original dualism which has to be overcome.
		36 seq.) is that of Manda d'hayye (yvwans riis wgs; cf.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GEO_GNU/GNOSTICISM_Gr_yvwvcs_knowledge_.html (8126 words)

	Order of Nazorean Essenes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is difficult to accept the identification of Miriai with mary, the mother of Jesus, who is called Miriam or Mariam in the Mandaean literature.
		In the Book of John she is mentioned with the mother of John, weeping with her.
		There are also a first person Miriai fragments in the Drasha d Yahya, a second Miriai fragment in the book of prayers for the days of the week, and the account of the 'people from the Mountain of the Maddai' in the Haran Gawaitha.
	essenes.net /bmaria.htm (3090 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 50, No.1 - April 1993 - BOOK NOTES - The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This provocative tone continues throughout the book, particularly in Couliano's cavalier dismissal of preand non-Christian Gnosticism and in his own theory of Gnosticism's ties to Christian Platonist circles.
		Sometimes the structure of the argument is choppy, the presentation of iconoclastic positions inadequate, and the reasons for including some groups in the discussion (e.g., Marcionism, Manichaeism, Bogomilism, Catharism, modern nihilism) and excluding others (Mandaeism, Hermetism) left unclear.
		Yet, on the whole, the breadth of scholarship applied to the problem of defining gnostic thought over the centuries is stimulating and welcome.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /apr1993/v50-1-booknotes7.htm (242 words)

	The Journal of the American Oriental Society: The Knowledge of Life: The Origins and Early History of the Mandaeans and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The book has eight chapters, reasonably divided between material pertaining to the Mandaeans and to the Harranians.
		But the parts on Mandaeism are, perhaps unavoidably, superficial compared to the meticulous data found in secondary sources on the Harranians.
		Precisely here lies a difficulty, for the primary Mandaic literature is vast (some of it still unknown in the West), while the information on the mysterious Harranians derives almost exclusively from...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19027531&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (266 words)

	Definition of Gnosticism
		All Gnostic sects possessed this rite in some way; in Mandaeism daily baptism is one of the great practices of the system.
		The Mandaeans said: "The name of the Life and the name of the Manda d'Haye is named over thee".
		In connection with Baptism the Sphragis was of great importance; in what the seal or sign consisted wherewith they were marked is not easy to say.
	www.ourladyswarriors.org /dissent/defgnost.htm (10687 words)

	Oxford Scholarship Online: The Mandaeans
		The presence of Miriai in Mandaeism raises the possibility that there was a brief Christian stage in early stage in the religion.
		This first discusses the traditions about her in the Book of John, next her conversion from Judaism to Mandaeism, and then her appearance in the Friday and Saturday prayers preceding and following the Jewish Sabbath - as a repeater of the statement cutting the ties of Mandaeism with Judaism.
		The last section of the chapter is a general discussion of Miriai's elevated position in Mandaeism, as one whose traditions portray Mandaeism's critical attitude to its former home of Judaism.
	www.oxfordscholarship.com /oso/public/content/religion/0195153855/acprof-0195153855-chapter-5.html (208 words)

	Angels History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An introductory overview of the term "angel" in a historical and religious context necessitates a preliminary discussion of the limits and context of this word, which has become deeply entrenched in Western culture.
		Religious movements such as Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and Mandaeism, which have common cultural links with both the monotheistic Judeo-Christian spirituality, and the diverse world of Greek, Hellenistic, and late antiquity culture, should also be examined.
		Soteriological and eschatological ideas expressed in Neoplatonic and hermetic circles should also be considered in any discussion, as should influences produced from links with alchemy, astrology, divination, and magic.
	www.bookrags.com /history/religion/angels-eorl-01 (205 words)

	John the Baptist and Jesus: A Report of the Jesus Seminar
		These and other questions concerning the historical John the Baptist and Jesus are answered in this provocative and lucid book.
		The Jesus Seminar has considered all the historical evidence related to John the Baptist found in the gospels, Josephus, the documents known as the Pseudo-Clementines, and the traces of the Baptist tradition preserved in Mandaeism, a baptizing sect that continues to exist in southern Iraq and neighboring Iran.
		This book contains a summary of the deliberations and votes of the Seminar, together with a concise sketch of the historical figure of John the Baptist.
	www.westarinstitute.org /Polebridge/Title/JBJesus/jbjesus.html (319 words)

	Historical section - Area 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The fifth volume of A History of Zoroastrianism, and the subject of the research project for the period between 2000 and 2005, will deal with the Sasanian empire.
		The Sasanian period is a crucial period for the history of Zoroastrianism, as well as for the development of Judaism, Christianity, Mandaeism and Manichaeism.
		The interaction between the various religions in the empire -also including the remnants of the local traditional religions of Mesopotamia- will form a major component of the project and is of great importance also for the later history of the area and of each of the individual religions, as well as early Islam.
	noster.theo.uu.nl /research/projovz2003/histarea1.htm (2925 words)

	HOMOPLASMATE
		Classical Gnosticism is considered the body of Gnostic traditions that existed in the Ancient Mediterranean world.
		It consists of Christian Gnosticism, Greek Hermeticism, Mandaeism, and Manicheanism.
		Later Gnostic revivals, especially those with Christian origins like the Cathars, tend to exemplify great similarity to their ancient predecessors.
	homoplasmate.blogspot.com /2005/05/classical-gnosticism.html (781 words)

	The Da Vinci Code: Separating Fact From Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Primarily on the basis of the Nag Hammadi evidence, many today hold that Gnosticism first emerged in the late Hellenistic or early Imperial period among speculative and syncretistic Jews.
		Despite its suppression by ecclesiastical authorities in the third and fourth centuries, Gnosticism continued in the guise of Manichaeism and Mandaeism and in various medieval speculative movements.
		See also Gospel of Thomas, The; Nag Hammadi; Simon Magus.
	www.rbc.org /davinci/gnosticism.php (450 words)

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