Haran Gawaita

Haran Gawaita
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ReligionMandaeism
LanguageMandaic language

The Haran Gawaita (Mandaic: ࡄࡀࡓࡀࡍ ࡂࡀࡅࡀࡉࡕࡀ, meaning "Inner Harran" or "Inner Hauran") also known as the Scroll of Great Revelation, is a Mandaean text which recounts the history of the Mandaeans as Nasoraeans from Jerusalem and their arrival in a region described as "Inner Harran ('haran gauaita) which is called the mountains of Madday" (Mandaic ṭura ḏ-madai), which some scholars have identified with Media.[1][2] The Haran Gawaita continues the historical narrative of the Mandaean Book of Kings,[3] adding a new eighth age to the seven described in that work.[4]

The text was published for the first time in 1953.[5]

  1. ^ "And sixty thousand Nasoraeans abandoned the Sign of the Seven and entered the Median Hills, a place where we were free from domination by all other races." Karen L. King, What is Gnosticism?, 2005, Page 140
  2. ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). Turning the Tables on Jesus: The Mandaean View. In Horsley, Richard (March 2010). Christian Origins. Fortress Press. ISBN 9781451416640.(pp94-111). Minneapolis: Fortress Press
  3. ^ Häberl, Charles (2022). The Book of Kings and the Explanations of This World. Liverpool: Liverpool. ISBN 9781837642595. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  4. ^ Häberl, Charles G. (2022). "The Inner Harran and the Writing of Mandean History". Bibliotheca Orientalis. 79 (3–4): 277–288. doi:10.2143/BIOR.79.3.3291421.
  5. ^ Bladel, Kevin Thomas van (2017). From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the marshes. Leiden studies in Islam and society. Leiden; Boston: Brill. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-90-04-33943-9.

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