The Mandaeans: the last Gnostics

The Mandaeans: the last Gnostics

Mandaeans

Edmondo Lupieri

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans

translated by Charles Hindley

Series: Italian texts and studies on religion and society.

Preface to the Italian Edition -- Preface to the American Editio -- Prologue -- Part I History: 1. The Mandaeans -- Life, Customs, and Religious Rituals -- The Ideas -- Gnosticism -- Mandaeanism -- The Literature -- Instruments -- List of the Principal Published Mandaean Texts, Together with Information on Some Unpublished Ones -- Bibliographical Suggestions -- 2. The Mandaeans and the West: A History of Interaction -- Initial Contact -- The Rediscovery -- The Mission -- The Failure -- The Erudite and Travelers -- Professors and Diplomats -- The "Mandaean Question" -- 3. Legends and History -- Between Egypt and India -- Jerusalem, John the Baptist, and the Others -- Genealogies of Scribes -- Part II The Texts (An Anthology) 1. Abstracts of Theology -- 2. The First Man -- 3. From the Creation to the Flood -- 4. The Religions of Others -- 5. The Jews, Jerusalem, and Miriai -- 6. John, a True Mandaean -- 7. Jesus, the "False Messiah" -- 8. The "Son of the Arab Butcher" -- Glossary -- Index.

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