Mandaism

English Alternative forms en mandaism Etymology en la Mandaismus, equivalent to en Manda -ism. Pronunciation en /ˈmændeɪ.ɪzəm/ /mænˈdeɪ.ɪzəm/ en eɪɪzəm 4 Noun en rhetoric An idiom or other feature borrowed from Mandaic. en Aramaism en 1913 James A. Montgomery Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur https://books.google.com/books?id=eRwYAAAAYAAJ Philadelphia 35 For other similar Mandaisms we may note: […] en 1990 Orientalia Christiana Analecta https://books.google.com/books?id=VOM-wFMR5xQC 372 As to the Syriac bowls, Montgomery had already referred to Mandaisms in the Syriac texts […] en 1999 Studia Orientalia https://books.google.com/books?id=0kLtAAAAMAAJ 88 Montgomery, owing to the limited knowledge of Babylonian Jewish Aramaic in his time, interpreted many of the features simply as Mandaisms. Coordinate terms Proper noun en Mandaeism a monotheistic religion laying emphasis on John the Baptist. en 1836 Godfrey Higgins Anacalypsis https://books.google.com/books?id=-sNBAAAAcAAJ 657 M. Matter has given the meaning of Manda, the origin of Mandaism in the word Gnosis. en 1871 William Wright (orientalist) William Wright Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=YCsYpvNWyMAC xiv The former of these hymns is a most curious document, and savours rather of Gnosticism or Mandaism than of genuine Christianity. en 1898 Hartwig Hirschfeld H. Hirschfeld The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=1s4sAAAAIAAJ 908 He is otherwise inclined to place confidence in Theodor's information as to the person of the founder of Mandaism, […] en 1925 Moses Gaster The Samaritans: Their History, Doctrines and Literature https://ia902300.us.archive.org/30/items/samaritanstheirh00gast/samaritanstheirh00gast.pdf 87 Gnosticism, Manichaism, and Mandaism found numerous adherents; […] en 1968 C. H. Dodd Mandaism The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel https://books.google.com/books?id=S5nhoHTlwjcC Cambridge University Press 129 Mandaism is best understood as fundamentally a Gnostic system, comparable though not identical with various Gnostic systems known to us, which combine elements drawn in varying degrees from Iranian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Jewish and Christian sources, with Greek philosophy somewhere in the background (in Mandaism very much in the background). Synonyms en Mandaeanism Related terms en Mandaic Mandaite