Haran Gawaita

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The Haran Gawaita (

Mandaean text which recounts the history of the Mandaeans and their arrival in Media as Nasoraeans from Jerusalem.[1][2]

The text was published for the first time in 1953.[3]

Text, dating and authorship

The text is in the Mandaic language and script. It is of unknown authorship.

The recipients of the text are stated to be those disciples who must persevere in their faith during the Arab age, meaning that it must post-date the early Muslim conquests at the least. Furthermore, the text makes repeated reference to Baghdad, a city built in 762, and as such is likely to also post-date the 8th century.[3]

Content

According to the Haran Gawaita,

Jorunn J. Buckley, the Mandaeans see themselves to be former Judeans based in Jerusalem that loved Adonai until the birth of Jesus.[5]: 49 [2]: 96  These Nasoraean disciples of John the Baptist[4]: IX  are aware of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 CE, but they did not leave because of this. They fled before 70 CE due to persecution by a faction of more normative or Orthodox Jews. With the help of the Parthian king Artabanus II (Ardban II; previously known as Ardban III), who ruled from 11-38 CE, the Mandaeans settled in the Median Hills (Mandaic: Ṭura ḏ-Madai[6]: xiii ), and later moved to southern Babylonia.[5]: 4 [2][7]

Manuscripts

An English translation of the Haran Gawaita and the

Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 9 and DC 36, respectively).[8]

A typesetted Mandaic version of DC 9 was published by Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki in 2002.[9]

Copies and translations

A German translation, which makes use of Drower's manuscripts as well as two additional privately held manuscripts, was published in 2020 by Bogdan Burtea.[10]

Flushing, New York.[11] It was owned by Nasser Sobbi and was originally copied by Mulla Sa’ad, the grandfather of Jabbar Choheili.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "And sixty thousand Nasoraeans abandoned the Sign of the Seven and entered the Median Hills, a place where we were free from domination by all other races." Karen L. King, What is Gnosticism?, 2005, Page 140
  2. ^
    ISBN 9781451416640
    .(pp94-111). Minneapolis: Fortress Press
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-90-04-33943-9
    .
  4. ^ a b Drower, Ethel Stefana (1953). The Haran Gawaita and the Baptism of Hibil-Ziwa. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
  5. ^
    OCLC 65198443
    .
  6. ^ Drower, E. S. (1960). The secret Adam: a study of Nasoraean gnosis. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  7. ISSN 0022-4480
    .
  8. ^ Les textes de Nag Hammadi: - Page 111 Jacques E. Ménard, Université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg. Centre de recherches d'histoire des religions - 1975 "This part of the theory is based on a sort of « History of the Mandaean Movement », called Diwan of the Great Revelation, called Harran Gawaita (the Inner Harran) published in 1953 by Lady ES Drower s». It begins, after a preamble and a .."
  9. ISBN 1-876888-02-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  10. OCLC 1138882232
    .
  11. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9
    .
  12. ISSN 1935-441X
    .

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