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• Title:The Mandaeans : ancient texts and modern people / Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley.
  
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• Author/Creator:Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: BT1405 .B83 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 09-15-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mandaeans.
  
• Description:xiv, 200 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
  
• Series:AAR the religions (Unnumbered)
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-195) and index.
  
• ISBN:0195153855 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:I. Beginnings
  1. Introduction: The Mandaean World
  2. From Iraq to California: Grains of Musk
  3. Sitil: An Example of "the Image Above and Below"
  4. Ruha
  5. Miriai
  II. Rituals
  6. To the River: In Iran, April 1996
  7. Baptism (Masbuta)
  8. Tabahata Masiqta
  9. Initiation of the Tarmida
  III. Native Hermeneutics
  10. Ducks That Came to the Marshes: New York
  11. Inscribed Mandaean Body
  12. Interpretive Strategies in The Scroll of Exalted Kingship
  13. Mandaean Language Games and Obstacles
  14. Thousands of Names, Hundreds of Lineages. Frouzanda Mahrad.