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Mandaean studies is the study of the Mandaean religion, Mandaean people, and Mandaic language. It can be considered as a subdiscipline of Aramaic studies, Semitic studies, Middle Eastern studies, and Oriental studies. Related disciplines include Syriac studies, Assyriology, Iranian studies, and religious studies.

History

Early history

One of the earliest Europeans to write detailed works about the Mandaeans was Ignatius of Jesus, an Italian Roman Catholic friar who published a 1652 treatise on Mandaeism, Narratio originis, rituum, & errorum christianorum Sancti Ioannis ("Narration of the Origin, the Rituals, and the Errors of the Christians of St. John").[1]

During the 19th century, scholars such as Matthias Norberg and Julius Heinrich Petermann published printed versions of the Ginza Rabba. Petermann also performed field research with the Mandaeans in southern Iraq during the 1850s, where he worked Yahya Bihram as his primary informant.[2]

20th century

In the early 20th century, Mandaean studies saw major progress as many works about Mandaeism were published, particularly translations of

Mandaean texts into German by Mark Lidzbarski. During the 1930s and 1940s, the field went into a temporary decline due to the turmoils of World War II.[3]

During the mid-1900s,

Drower Collection through her primary field consultant, Sheikh Negm bar Zahroon. Even today, many Mandaean texts remain accessible to Western scholars solely through Drower's works.[4]

21st century

During the 21st century, Mandaean studies underwent a revival as many new studies and textual translations were published. The most active 21st-century Mandaean studies scholars based in the United States are Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, Charles G. Häberl, and James F. McGrath, in addition to Bogdan Burtea in Germany and Matthew Morgenstern in Israel.[5]

After the

Rafid Al-Sabti and his son Ardwan Al-Sabti in Nijmegen, Netherlands.[8]

Despite the significant progress made in Mandaean studies over the past several decades, Mandaean studies remains one of the least known subfields within Middle Eastern and Semitic studies. According to Charles G. Häberl:[5]: 206 

It would not be much of an exaggeration to claim that scholars of

Mandaean texts
... will prove indispensable for elucidating some of the mysteries that attend the study of this period and region.

Academic series

The following monographic series specialize in Mandaean studies:

Academic journals

Papers relating to Mandaean studies are regularly published in ARAM Periodical.[11]

Conferences

The following ARAM International Conferences, organized by the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies of the

Mandaean priests also performed baptisms (masbutas) during the 1999, 2002, and 2007 conferences.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ di Gesù, Ignazio (1652). Narratio originis, rituum, & errorum christianorum Sancti Ioannis (in Latin). Typis Sac. Cong. Prop. Fidei.
  2. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9
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  3. JSTOR 543968
    . Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  4. OCLC 65198443
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    ISBN 978-1-80085-627-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2024 (link
    )
  6. ISBN 9780958034630
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  7. ^ "The Mandaeans". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
  8. doi:10.2143/MUS.131.1.3284833
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  9. ^ "Gorgias Mandaean Studies". Gorgias Press. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  10. ^ "Mandäistische Forschungen". Harrassowitz Verlag (in German). 2024. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  11. ^ "ARAM Periodical". Peeters Publishers.
  12. ^ "About us". Aram Society. ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  13. ^ "ARAM International Conferences (1989-2019)" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-02-02.
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