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1800 Years of Encounters With Mandaeans / Jorunn Buckley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias Mandaean Studies ; 5Publisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (146 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781463241339
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299/.932 23//eng/20231003eng
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Intellectual Timeline -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations and Vignettes -- Vignettes -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Iran 1973 and 1996 -- Chapter 2. Conferences and Priests -- Chapter 3. A Yalufa and Three Elders -- Chapter 4. Other Mandaean Contacts -- Chapter 5. Glimpses of a Few Scribes and Their Work -- Part II -- Preface to Part II -- Chapter 6. “We Are Between Two Deaths” -- Chapter 7. “Don’t Ask the Turkish Smuggler any Questions” -- Afterword -- Works Cited -- Illustrations -- Indices
Summary: Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley’s new book is both an updated academic study and an autobiographical account of her decades-long Mandaean encounters. The book includes the author’s intellectual timeline in Mandaean studies from the late 1960s until today, a study of Mandaean scribal lineages, accounts of private and public meetings with Mandeans around the world with 26 anecdotes / vignettes, as well as selections from a privately printed book on her international human rights work for Mandaeans. The book is dedicated to a treasured Mandaean friend, the yalufa (learned layman) Sh. Salem Choheili.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781463241339

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Intellectual Timeline -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations and Vignettes -- Vignettes -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Iran 1973 and 1996 -- Chapter 2. Conferences and Priests -- Chapter 3. A Yalufa and Three Elders -- Chapter 4. Other Mandaean Contacts -- Chapter 5. Glimpses of a Few Scribes and Their Work -- Part II -- Preface to Part II -- Chapter 6. “We Are Between Two Deaths” -- Chapter 7. “Don’t Ask the Turkish Smuggler any Questions” -- Afterword -- Works Cited -- Illustrations -- Indices

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Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley’s new book is both an updated academic study and an autobiographical account of her decades-long Mandaean encounters. The book includes the author’s intellectual timeline in Mandaean studies from the late 1960s until today, a study of Mandaean scribal lineages, accounts of private and public meetings with Mandeans around the world with 26 anecdotes / vignettes, as well as selections from a privately printed book on her international human rights work for Mandaeans. The book is dedicated to a treasured Mandaean friend, the yalufa (learned layman) Sh. Salem Choheili.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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