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    Mandaeans. There are about 2,500 Mandaeans in Jordan, the largest Mandaean community in the Middle East outside of Iraq and Iran. The name "Mandaean"...
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    Mandaeism (redirect from Mandaeanism)
    : 1  Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enos, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist. Mandaeans consider Adam, Seth, Noah...
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  • creation in the Mandaean holy book in the Ginza Rba (PhD). University College London. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and...
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  • before the Muslim authorities to have the Mandaeans recognized as a People of the Book. The contemporary Mandaean priesthood can trace its immediate origins...
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  • Mandean (redirect from Mandaean)
    Mandean or Mandaean may refer to: Mandaeism, a Gnostic religion Mandaeans, the ethnoreligious group who follow the Gnostic religion Mandean, the language...
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  • (ࡌࡀࡋࡅࡀࡔࡀ) in Mandaic. Mandaean birth names are secular names that are given at birth and are used by non-Mandaeans to refer to Mandaeans in everyday life....
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  • Encounters with Mandaeans. Gorgias Mandaean Studies. Vol. 5. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-4632-4132-2. ISSN 1935-441X. Mandaean calendar from...
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    Therefore, Mandaeans are baptized repeatedly during their lives. Mandaeans consider John the Baptist to have been a Nasoraean Mandaean.: 3  John is...
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    Mandaeans may have historically been separate groups. In the Ginza Rabba, the term Nasoraean is used to refer to righteous Mandaeans, i.e., Mandaean priests...
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  • the Mandaeans in southern Iraq during the 1850s, where he worked with Yahya Bihram as his primary informant. In the early 20th century, Mandaean studies...
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    Mandaean Australians are Australians of Mandaean descent or Mandaeans who have Australian citizenship. As of 2023, Australia has the largest Mandaean...
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    concentrations of Mandaeans were in Amarah, Nasiriyah and Basra. Besides these southern regions and Ahvaz in Iran, large numbers of Mandaeans were found in...
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    has also built Mandaean cemeteries in Tyresö and in Södertälje. Most Mandaeans in Sweden are from Iraq, with very few Iranian Mandaeans living in Sweden...
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    Iraqi Mandaeans. In the early 1980s, the mandi was built on land originally owned by the Iraqi Ministry of Finance that was allocated to the Mandaean community...
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  • Göttingen, 1961; Kurt Rudolph, Mandaeans (Leiden: Brill, 1967); Christa Müller-Kessler, Sacred Meals and Rituals of the Mandaeans”, in David Hellholm, Dieter...
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  • Mandaeans in the United States refers to people born in or residing in the United States of Mandaean origin or those considered to be ethnic Mandaeans...
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  • Kentaeans (kntyʾ), the Mandaeans (mndyʾ), and the rest of the pagans (ḥanpe).": 26–34  Van Bladel (2017) argues that both the Mandaeans and Kentaeans likely...
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  • reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2023). 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans. Gorgias...
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  • currently serves as the head of the Mandaean Council of Ahvaz. The council has a 13-member board of directors. Mandaeans in Ahvaz and nearby towns nominate...
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    Baptizer' Iuhana Maṣbana) is considered the greatest prophet of the Mandaeans. Mandaeans also refer to him as Yuhana bar Zakria (John, son of Zechariah)....
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    Ginza Rabba (category Mandaean texts)
    Kurt (2012). "Mandaeans: ii. The Mandaean religion". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 29 July 2024. Nasoraia, Brikha H.S. (2021). The Mandaean gnostic religion:...
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    Drabsha (redirect from Mandaean cross)
    Rasta (Mandaeism) – Mandaean ceremonial garment Temple menorah – Ancient Hebrew lampstand Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and...
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    Asiatic Society, 1949. Ethel Stefana Drower: Mandaeans. Liturgy and Ritual. The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Translated with notes. Leiden: E. J. Brill...
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    mostly Arabs, as well as Kurds, Turkmen, Yazidis, Assyrians, Armenians, Mandaeans, Persians and Shabakis with similarly diverse geography and wildlife....
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  • Mandaic: ࡃࡓࡀࡔࡀ ࡖࡉࡀࡄࡉࡀ, romanized: Drāšā ḏ-Yaḥyā) is a Mandaean holy book in Mandaic Aramaic which Mandaeans attribute to their prophet John the Baptist. The...
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  • Greek, Gnostic, Guanche, Hindu, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Japanese, Mandaean, Mapuche, Moabite, Native American,[clarification needed] Persian, Phoenician...
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    History of baptism (category Mandaean rituals)
    Hemerobaptists. The Mandaeans have been associated with the Hemerobaptists on account of both practicing frequent baptism and Mandaeans believing they are...
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    Liverpool, Sydney". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. Retrieved 6 November 2021. "الشيخ دخيل الشيخ عيدان". mandaeans.org. 2008-10-07. Archived from the...
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  • Mandaeans number some 50,000–75,000 people, but it is believed Neo-Mandaic may now be spoken fluently by as few as 5,000 people, with other Mandaeans...
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    p. 345. ISBN 978-90-04-23544-1. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5...
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