Mandaeans' bibliography

The English language has very good study manuals, solvents and clarifiers, on the Gnostic sect of the Mandaeans. From the writings of Lady Drower the middle of last century, to the most innovative professor Jorunn Jacobsen, they all have a great seriousness. Then, I suggest some volumes that could help you learn more about this distinctive religious group that still trying to survive in Iraq and Iran.

-The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran. Their Cults, Customs, Magic Legends, and Folklore, Ethel Stefana Drower, 2002 (reprinted from the Oxford edition, 1937), Gorgias Press, 540 pages.

Contains a study of all aspects of the life of the Mandaeans of Iran and Iraq. Lady Drower was the first European interest in a scientific manner by the Mandaeans and make them known to the Western world.

-Baptists of Iran, Abbas Tahvildar, out of print, 2000, Tehran-Iran, 174 pages. English and French.

Special high quality photographic work with texts in English and French. Although the images of Abbas Tahvildar about Mandaeans belongs to mandi of Ahwaz (Iran), its rites are virtually identical to those of Iraq.

-Catalog of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum, JB Erica Segal and C.D. Hunter, 2000, British Museum Press, 400 pages.

The collection of Mesopotamian incantation bowls in the British Museum is the second largest in the world (after the Baghdad Museum in Iraq). This catalog provides a transliteration and a translation with commentary of the texts of each of the 142 bowls.

-The Mandaeans Ancient Texts and Modern People, Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, 2002, Oxford University Press, 216 pages.

One of the most interesting and comprehensive works on Mandaeism.

-The great steam of souls, Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, 2006, Gorgias Press, 408 pages.

One of the classics studies about mandaean people.

-Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics, Edmondo Lupieri, 2001, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub, 296 pages.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Mandaism telling us their traditional way of life, and introduces readers to the complex world of religious ideas.

-Gnostic Ethics and Mandaean Origins, Edwin M. Yamauchi, 2004, Gorgias Press, 102 pages.

Unlike other researchers (Lady Drower, R. Machuch or K. Rudolph) which match the sources of Mandaeism with the Christian religion, Yamauchi concludes that this Gnostic group arose around the second century AD.

-A Mandaic Dictionary, E.S. Drower and R. Macuch, out of print, 1963, Oxford Clarendon Press (out of print), 491 pages.

To understand the Mandaean language difficult. Explain the meaning of words like Ginza, ganzebra ...

-Gnosis: the Nature and History of Gnosticism, Kurt Rudolph, out of print, 1987, Harper San Francisco, 411 pages.

Examines the Gnostic writings, myths and ideology and debate about the influence of his followers, among them the Mandaeans.

-Mandaeism, Kurt Rudolph, out of print, 1978, Institute of Religious Iconography, State University Groningen, Leiden E. J. Brill, 29 pages.