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January 2026

January 05, 2026

Review: 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans

Jorunn Buckley begins her book 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans with a bold claim...

November 2022

November 14, 2022

Mandaean Illustrated Scroll Talk and Exhibit

At the weekly Friday coffee time at the Visiting Scholars Center at Oxford University's Weston...

October 2020

October 14, 2020

The Influence of John the Baptist on Jesus’ Teaching

This evening I'll be presenting to the New Testament Seminar at Columbia University. Here's the title...

June 2020

June 20, 2020

The Shared Origins of Monotheism, Evil, and Gnosticism (Enoch Seminar 2020 Presentation)

 Above is the short version of a longer paper I wrote for the Enoch...

April 2020

April 03, 2020

Guest Lecture and Academic Minute on Mandaeism

There are a wide array of things about the Mandaeans in this post - video...

October 2019

October 27, 2019

Mandaean Book of John at #AARSBL19 in San Diego

It is exciting to be able to share that the Mandaean Book of John: Critical...

August 2018

August 22, 2018

ARAM Conferences on Gnosticism and Mandaeism #CFP

ARAM Society has changed the dates for two of its conferences next July, one on...

August 16, 2018

Neglected Mentions of John the Baptist and Mandaeans in Syriac and Aramaic Sources?

Several sources online have highlighted a new resource related to the study of Syriac literature:...

July 2018

July 07, 2018

Mandaic and Mandaean Scholarly Updates

It is a fantastic time to be working in the field of Mandaean studies, whether as...

December 2016

December 10, 2016

The Mandaean Book of John: Table of Contents

The entire draft of the English translation of the Mandaean Book of John is still...

November 2016

November 13, 2016

A Life in Mandaean Studies

The Ancient Jew Review has a feature on Jorunn Buckley, who is quite literally the...

February 2016

February 19, 2016

Call for Papers on Aramaic Magical Bowls

The American Academy of Religion's Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity program unit, and the Society...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Magic Bowls at #AARSBL15 in Atlanta

For those interested in Judaism, Mandaeism, Late Antiquity, ancient magic, Aramaic, and any number of...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

Gnostic Survivors: 2015 David Noel Freedman Lecture

If any readers are in the vicinity of Ann Arbor, Michigan, I'll be speaking at...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity AAR Call for Papers 2015

Here's the Call for Papers for the Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity AAR sessions for...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

Lexidion Codicis Nasaraei

I had the privilege of visiting the rare books room at Christian Theological Seminary yesterday....

August 2014

August 06, 2014

Notsrim in the Talmud: Mandaeans, Christians, or Both?

A recent article in Tablet magazine mentions the reference to notsrim in a Talmud discussion...

January 2014

January 16, 2014

AAR Call for Papers (Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity)

The American Academy of Religion call for papers for the 2014 annual meeting is now...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

#AARSBL Day 3

Yesterday I chaired the "Traditions of East Late Antiquity" exploratory session. Apparently exploratory sessions get...

November 19, 2013

Mandaeans at AAR/SBL 2013

Those interested in the Mandaeans find themselves overlapping the AAR and SBL groups, and there...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

Dissimulation and Survival: from the Mandaeans to Doctor Who

Charles Haberl shared his latest publication on the Mandaeans and their religious history. It looks...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Earliest Depiction of Mandaeans Seen in the West

Matthew Morgenstern shared this on Facebook:

July 09, 2013

The End of the 2013 ARAM Conference on the Mandaeans

The ARAM conference on the Mandaeans officially ended at 7pm this evening (although some of...

July 09, 2013

The Mandaean Refugee Crisis

The last two presentations were by Erica Hunter and by Layla al-Roomi and another Mandaean,...

July 09, 2013

Pihta and Polemic in the Mandaean Canonical Prayerbook

Jorunn Buckley's paper at the ARAM conference on the Mandaeans focused on a series of...

July 08, 2013

Mandaean Banquet

One nice feature of the ARAM conference on the Mandaeans is having a banquet one...

July 08, 2013

Proceedings from Previous ARAM Conferences on the Mandaeans

It was good to see that the proceedings from previous conferences on the Mandaeans -...

July 08, 2013

Conference Papers (ARAM Conference on the Mandaeans, Morning Session, 8 July 2013)

The ARAM conference on the Mandaeans started this morning, and my paper was in the...

July 08, 2013

Wadham College, Oxford

Today the ARAM conference on the Mandaeans will be starting at the Oriental Institute here...

July 03, 2013

Abiding Questions

In working on my conference paper on lightworld visitors to Jerusalem in the Mandaean Book...

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