mandaism

plural mandaisms

1. Alternative letter-case form of Mandaism

plural Mandaisms · alternative mandaism

1. rhetoricAn idiom or other feature borrowed from Mandaic.

   For other similar Mandaisms we may note: […]

   1913, James A. Montgomery, Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur, Philadelphia, page 35

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   As to the Syriac bowls, Montgomery had already referred to Mandaisms in the Syriac texts […]

   1990, Orientalia Christiana Analecta, page 372

   Montgomery, owing to the limited knowledge of Babylonian Jewish Aramaic in his time, interpreted many of the features simply as Mandaisms.

   1999, Studia Orientalia, page 88

alternative mandaism

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Mandaeism (“a monotheistic religion laying emphasis on John the Baptist”).

   Gnosticism, Manichaism, and Mandaism found numerous adherents; […]

   1925, Moses Gaster, The Samaritans: Their History, Doctrines and Literature, page 87

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   M. Matter has given the meaning of Manda, the origin of Mandaism in the word Gnosis.

   1836, Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis, page 657

   The former of these hymns is a most curious document, and savours rather of Gnosticism or Mandaism than of genuine Christianity.

   1871, William Wright, Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, volume 2, page xiv

   He is otherwise inclined to place confidence in Theodor's information as to the person of the founder of Mandaism, […]

   1898, H. Hirschfeld, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 908

   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).

   1968, C. H. Dodd, “Mandaism”, in The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, Cambridge University Press, page 129

   Synonyms: Mandaeanism