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May 2013

May 31, 2013

Mandaean Resources Online

In one of those interesting internet convergences, two blogs I subscribe to offered links to...

April 2013

April 27, 2013

No Wait, I Can Fix This…

Steve Caruso shared an image related to his work on the Mandaean Book of John...

April 10, 2013

Mandaean Roots of Christianity?

This book came to my attention recently via Facebook. There is also a promotional video...

March 2013

March 17, 2013

The Bells of Saint John

The end of this month Doctor Who will return and the title of that first...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

The Mandaeans: Around the World in 80 Faiths

A friend drew my attention to the above video which, starting around the 3:37 mark,...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

The Mandaean Good Shepherd

Charles Häberl mentioned on his blog that he has posted his translation of chapters 11 and...

January 01, 2013

John the Baptist and the Gnostics

Miguel Conner has an article in The Examiner highlighting the various mentions of and views...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

#sblaar Mandaean Running

Yesterday morning was the first bit of genuinely free time I have had at the...

November 15, 2012

Late Texts, Early Traditions continued: Chronicles, John, and the Mandaeans

Yesterday Jim West shared a linkto an article which ties in directly to the question...

November 13, 2012

Late Texts, Early Traditions continued: Thomases, Johns, and Marks

Here I am continuing some preliminary reflections related to my upcoming conference paper (which I began...

October 2012

October 26, 2012

Mandaean Baptism in Liverpool

I was telling a colleague about the fact that there are Mandaean baptisms on YouTube,...

September 2012

September 10, 2012

The Mandaean Book of John – Hacked!

As Steve Caruso and Jim West have mentioned on their blogs, a hacker has brought...

September 03, 2012

Eyes Encyclopedia of Knowledge: Mandaic and Arabic Editions of Mandaean Texts Online

The MandaeanNetwork.org web site (connected with one that bears the title "The Eyes Encyclopedia of...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

You Know What I Did Last Summer

Summers are special times for professors. At the start of them, we make implausibly grandiose...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

NEH Award Funds Commentary on the Mandaean Book of John

The NEH has issued a press release, and so presumably it is OK to announce...

July 26, 2012

The Life and Teaching of John the Baptist according to the Mandaean Book of John

Now that I have finished at least a still provisional but nevertheless complete translation of...

July 09, 2012

Anush-Uthra vs. Jesus: Smackdown in Jerusalem

I just posted another draft of a chapter from the Mandaean Book of John. In...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Miriai is a Vine, a Tree that Stands at the Mouth of the Euphrates

I've just posted on the project blog a draft of my translation of chapter 35...

June 13, 2012

Miriai’s Story

One of the first stories I became acquainted with in the Mandaean Book of John...

April 2012

April 18, 2012

Theme from Exploring Our Matrix

Jeff Carter has created a theme song for this blog, incorporating a snippet of Mandaean...

March 2012

March 25, 2012

Melammu, the Mandaeans and other Mesopotamians

Charles Jones posted at Ancient World Online about the Melammu project, which has a digital...

February 2012

February 20, 2012

Yahia Yuhana: How Do You Translate a Name and its Translation?

The characteristic introduction in the sections of the Mandaean Book of John focused on John...

February 07, 2012

Save the Mandaean Refugees Petition

Wisam Breegi, a Mandaean whom I know, forwarded me a link to a petition, asking...

September 2011

September 19, 2011

Mandaean Artifacts in the British Museum

Via AWOL and Abnormal Interests, many of us had drawn to our attention the fact...

July 2011

July 21, 2011

SBL Aramaic Studies Sessions for San Francisco

Chris Brady posted on the finalization of the Aramaic Studies sessions for the Society of...

June 2011

June 10, 2011

The Mandaic Book of John

As an update on the Mandaean Book of John translation project, let me share the...

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