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The Mandaeans

Ancient Texts and Modern People

by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley

2002·217 pages·en
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN
9780195153859

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The Mandaeans were a gnostic sect that arose in the Middle East around the same time as Christianity. This text examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans and provides an introduction to the religion, showing how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa.

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