1800 Years of Encounters With Mandaeans

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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Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC

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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-4132-2

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Series: Gorgias Mandaean Studies 5

Publication Date: Aug 23,2023

Interior Color: Black with Color Inserts

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Page Count: 146

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-1-4632-4132-2

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	Contributor	Biography
	JorunnBuckley	Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1978) is a Historian of Religions, specializing in Mandaean Studies. She has worked in several colleges and universities since 1975, and is Prof. Emerita at Bowdoin College. Prof. Buckley has published widely on Mandaean religion and is certified as an Expert Witness by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration Review, on Mandaeans seeking asylum. Her scholarly archive is currently being cataloged in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Introduction ............................................................................. ix
Intellectual Timeline ................................................................ xi
Acknowledgements .................................................................. xv
List of Illustrations and Vignettes .............................................xvii
Vignettes ................................................................................ xxi
PART I ....................................................................................... 1
Chapter 1. Iran 1973 and 1996 ................................................. 3
1973 ................................................................................. 3
1996 ................................................................................. 6
Chapter 2. Conferences and Priests ......................................... 17
ARAM June 13-15, 1999, Harvard ................................... 17
Chapter 3. A Yalufa and Three Elders ...................................... 27
The Yalufa ....................................................................... 27
Three Elders .................................................................... 31
Chapter 4. Other Mandaean Contacts ...................................... 41
Chapter 5. Glimpses of a Few Scribes and Their Work ............. 51
Introductory Remarks ...................................................... 51
Lamea’s Texts .................................................................. 52
Marsh. 691 ...................................................................... 55
Ram Zihrun and Yahia Bihram ........................................ 56
PART II .................................................................................... 59
Preface to Part II ..................................................................... 61
A. How Persecutions of the Mandeans Occur ................... 61
B. To Whom It May Concern ........................................... 63
Chapter 6. “We Are Between Two Deaths” .............................. 69
Chapter 7. “Don’t Ask the Turkish Smuggler any Questions” ... 83
Afterword ............................................................................... 91
Works Cited ............................................................................ 93
Illustrations ............................................................................ 95
Indices .................................................................................. 107
Index of Persons ............................................................ 107
Index of Places .............................................................. 110

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