Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Neo-Mandaic is the last phase of a pre-modern vernacular closely related to Classical Mandaic, a Mesopotamian Aramaic idiom of Late Antiquity. This unique language is critically endangered, being spoken by a few hundred adherents of Mandaeism, the only gnostic religion to have survived until the present day. All other Mandaeans, numbering several tens of thousands, are Arabic or Persian speakers. The present study concerns the least known aspect of the language, namely its lexicon as reflected in both its dialects, those of the cities of Ahvaz and Khorramshahr in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. Apart from lexicological and etymological studies in Neo-Mandaic itself, the book discusses the contribution of the Neo-Mandaic lexis to our knowledge of literary Mandaic as well as aspects of this lexis within the framework of Neo-Aramaic as a whole.

Mandaean language --- Mandaic language --- Aramaic language --- Grammar. --- Lexicology.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Comparative religion --- Iconography --- Mandaean language --- -Grammar --- 299.245 --- -Mandaic language --- Aramaic language --- Mandeeërs. Mandaiten. Christenen van Sint Jan --- Grammar --- Mandaeans. --- -Mandeeërs. Mandaiten. Christenen van Sint Jan --- 299.245 Mandeeërs. Mandaiten. Christenen van Sint Jan --- -299.245 Mandeeërs. Mandaiten. Christenen van Sint Jan --- Mandaic language --- Mandaeans --- Christians of St. John --- Mendaeans --- Nasoraeans --- Sabians --- St. John's Christians --- Christian heresies --- History --- Christians of Saint John --- Disciples of Saint John --- Sabaeans (Mandaeans) --- Saint John's Christians --- Subbiyuns --- Religious adherents --- Mandaean language - - Grammar --- Mandeens --- Religion dans l'art --- -Mandaeans. --- -Comparative religion

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E. S. Drower, famous for her novels, travel accounts, and studies in the Middle East, especially on the Mandaeans. Drower (1879‐1972) kept up a lively correspondence with scholars, and the letters here span the years 1938 to the mid 1960's. It presents a window on Near Eastern studies in the mid 20th century, from the viewpoint of an autodidact insisting on, and succeeding in, a place among the academics.. Correspondence with many famous scholars and intellectuals are included, such as Cyrus H. Gordon, Rudolf Macuch, Sidney H. Smith, Godfrey R. Driver, Samuel H. Hooke, and Franz Rosenthal. The letters focus on four of Lady Drower's main books: The Book of the Zodiac (1949), Water into Wine (1956), A Mandaic Dictionary (with Rudolf Macuch, 1963), and Drowers hoped for, crowning achievement: the presumably lost, large manuscript, Mass and Masiqta .

Semitists --- Semitic philology. --- Mandaean language --- Sémitisants --- Philologie sémitique --- Mandéen (Langue) --- Correspondence --- Research --- History --- Sources --- Correspondance --- Recherche --- Histoire --- Drower, E. S. --- Mandaean language. --- 956.7 --- Mandaic language --- Aramaic language --- Middle Eastern philology --- Semitic philologists --- Semiticists --- Philologists --- Geschiedenis van Irak, Mesopotamië --- Drower, Ethel Stefana, --- Stevens, E. S. --- 956.7 Geschiedenis van Irak, Mesopotamië --- Sémitisants --- Philologie sémitique --- Mandéen (Langue) --- Semitic philology --- Semitists - Great Britain - Correspondence --- Drower, E. S. - (Ethel Stefana), - Lady, - 1879- - Correspondence --- Drower, E. S. - (Ethel Stefana), - Lady, - 1879 --- -Semitists