" Although it is one of the few religious traditions that can legitimately claim a continuous
2000-year literary history, there has been very little written about the Mandaeans in English …

Neo-Mandaic is the only surviving dialect of Aramaic to be recognized as a direct
descendant of any of the classical dialects of Late Antiquity. The Mandaeans who speak it …

Providing a unique anthropological perspective on Jewish mysticism and magic, this book is
a study of Jewish rites and rituals and how the analysis of early literature provides the roots …

Die seit vielen Jahrzehnten, meines Wissens seit mehr als 40 Jahren angekündigte
Bearbeitung der Zau-berschalensammlung des British Museums firmiert unter dem …

The unique cursive script still employed by the Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran, which is unlike
any other script found in the modern Middle East, may provide a clue to the obscure origins …

During the Sasanid era (AD 241-651), Mesopotamia was host to a mélange of Aramaic-
speaking communities: Jews, Mandaeans, Manichaeans and Christians as well as pagans …

Cover: Archaeological excavations and environmental sampling underway in Erk-Kala, the
Sasanian citadel of ancient Merv, modern Turkmenistan (photograph: St J. Simpson, 1992) …

Babylon has been associated with incantation bowls since the first discoveries in the mid-
nineteenth century. The “Rawlinson” collection of eight incantation bowls (seven were …

In 2021, a season of survey and excavation was carried out at the site of Tulul Kobeba, near
the town of Ar Rifa'i, in Dhi-Qar province, southern Iraq. This was the first time this previously …

Ibn al-Nadīm's tenth-century Fihrist, long recognized as the purveyor of much valuable
Manichaean lore, includes a Manichaean exposition of Genesis 2-4 that exhibits numerous …