Scroll of the Great Baptism

*Scroll of the Great Baptism*
Šarḥ ḏ-Maṣbuta Rabtia
Scroll of the Great Baptism; Šarḥ ḏ-Maṣbuta Rabtia
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Religion	Mandaeism
Language	Mandaic language

The Scroll of the Great Baptism (Classical Mandaic: ࡔࡀࡓࡇ ࡖࡌࡀࡑࡁࡅࡕࡀ ࡓࡀࡁࡕࡉࡀ‎ Šarḥ ḏ-Maṣbuta Rabtia^[1]) is a Mandaean religious text. It is a ritual scroll describing the 360 baptisms (masbutas) for a polluted priest. The scroll is also called "Fifty Baptisms" and the Raza Rba ḏ-Zihrun (Classical Mandaic: ࡓࡀࡆࡀ ࡓࡁࡀ ࡖࡆࡉࡄࡓࡅࡍ, lit. 'Great Mystery of Zihrun').^[2]

Manuscripts

Manuscript 50 of the Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 50) is a copy of the Scroll of the Great Baptism. It was copied in 1867 by Yahya Bihram and has 962 lines.^[2] Güterbock (2008) contains an analysis of the manuscript.^[3]

References

^ Drower, E. S. 1960. The Secret Adam: A Study of Nasoraean Gnosis. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
^ ^a ^b Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
^ Güterbock, Michael (2008). "Vorläufige Bemerkungen zu einer Ausgabe der mandäischen Rituale in der Drower Collection 50". Und das Leben ist siegreich!: mandäische und samaritanische Literatur: im Gedenken an Rudolf Macuch (1919-1993) = And life is victorious: Mandaean and Samaritan literatures: in memory of Rudolf Macuch (in German). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-05178-1. OCLC 310616930.

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[Secret_Adam-1] Drower, E. S. 1960. The Secret Adam: A Study of Nasoraean Gnosis. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[Buckley2010-2] Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.

[3] Güterbock, Michael (2008). "Vorläufige Bemerkungen zu einer Ausgabe der mandäischen Rituale in der Drower Collection 50". Und das Leben ist siegreich!: mandäische und samaritanische Literatur: im Gedenken an Rudolf Macuch (1919-1993) = And life is victorious: Mandaean and Samaritan literatures: in memory of Rudolf Macuch (in German). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-05178-1. OCLC 310616930.

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