Scroll of the Rivers
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The Diwan ḏ-Nahrawata or Diwan ḏ-Nahrauata (
Classical Mandaic: ࡃࡉࡅࡀࡍ ࡖࡍࡀࡄࡓࡀࡅࡀࡕࡀ, lit. 'Scroll of the Rivers') is a Mandaean religious text. It is written as an illustrated scroll.[1][2]
Contents
The scroll contains esoteric schematic diagrams of the cosmos. Well-springs are shown as small circles, mountains as triangles, and rivers as long straight lines. Illustrations in the scroll also depict
Hibil Ziwa as the grand mediator and messenger of the Life.[3]
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Manuscripts and translations
Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 7).[1] A typesetted Mandaic version of DC 7 was published by Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki in 2002.[4]
The Diwan Nahrawata is a geographical treatiseesoteric cosmology.[6] Kurt Rudolph published a German translation in 1982, based on a copy held in a private library in Dora, Baghdad that was originally from Ahvaz.[7] It has about 3300 words and was copied by Ram Zihrun, son of Sam Bihram, Kupašia in Shushtar, Iran in 1259 A.H. (1843 A.D.).
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
- OCLC 1272858968.
- ISBN 1-876888-01-6.
- OCLC 65198443.
- OCLC 1295213206.
- ^ Rudolph, Kurt. Der Mandäische ‘Diwan der Flüsse.’ Berlin: Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, philosophisch-historische Klasse, vol. 70, no. 1, 1982.
External links
- Diwan Nahrawatha (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network)
- Diwan Nahrawatha (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network)
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