"The sheer variety of genres of Mandaean literature is astonishing for a Gnostic religion, and the Nag Hammadi Library…"

"When the parson, later Professor of Theology, who once prepared me and others for confirmation, suggested that I shou…"

"Mandaic literature, as it reaches us today, therefore, may represent a range of closely related local movements that …"

"In conclusion, we must acknowledge that the texts before us are the product of a living and evolving tradition, compo…"

"It would not be much of an exaggeration to claim that scholars of Late Antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean and the…"

"To this day, Mandaeism remains a kind of blank canvas upon which we project our own interests, even as we struggle to…"

"From the start, these preconceptions and expectations have set in motion a perennial cycle of fascination and disappo…"

"Mandaeism, of course, is not merely a scholarly construct, cobbled together from a few spare texts discovered in an a…"

"Indeed, modern methods, modern ways, nationalistic education, cinemas, cars, and all that make up the new Iraq, threa…"

"When I was about 7 years old, I remember Lady Drower’s visit to our village (Liṭlaṭa) in Kalaatsalah in the south of …"