TY - BOOK ID - 11371940 TI - From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the marshes PY - 2017 SN - 9789004339439 9004339434 9789004339460 9004339469 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - 299.245 KW - 299.245 Mandeeërs. Mandaiten. Christenen van Sint Jan KW - Mandeeërs. Mandaiten. Christenen van Sint Jan KW - Mandaeans KW - Mandaeism. KW - History. KW - Mandaeanism KW - Mandeanism KW - Mandeism KW - Gnosticism KW - Christians of Saint John KW - Christians of St. John KW - Disciples of Saint John KW - Mendaeans KW - Nasoraeans KW - Sabaeans (Mandaeans) KW - Sabians KW - Saint John's Christians KW - St. John's Christians KW - Subbiyuns KW - Religious adherents KW - Religion. KW - Religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11371940 AB - This historical study argues that the Mandaean religion originated under Sasanid rule in the fifth century, not earlier as has been widely accepted. It analyzes primary sources in Syriac, Mandaic, and Arabic to clarify the early history of Mandaeism. This religion, along with several other, shorter-lived new faiths, such as Kentaeism, began in a period of state-sponsored persecution of Babylonian paganism. The Mandaeans would survive to become one of many groups known as Ṣābians by their Muslim neighbors. Rather than seeking to elucidate the history of Mandaeism in terms of other religions to which it can be related, this study approaches the religion through the history of its social contexts. ER -