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English: Drawing of a human figure representing Adam Kasia (the Hidden Adam) in Alma Rišaia Rba (MS DC 41)

Translation of the accompanying Mandaic text from Drower, Ethel S. (1963). A Pair of Naṣoraean Commentaries: Two Priestly Documents, the Great First World and the Lesser First World. Leiden: Brill. p. 9.

On the lower part of the trunk:

"At the Beginning Water, mambuhia (founts) of Life. Above them (the waters), three škintas, Watchers that are sublime, blessed to the utmost degree."
"In the beginning I came forth. I went thither; I remained and ruled over them, existing (mqaimia) from the Beginning to the End."

On the upper part of the trunk (upside down text):

  • “Šanai (wondrous, fem.) and incense” Š T
  • “Thy wreath they twine” P S
  • “In the precinct of the manda” T Y
  • “Hibil rejoiced” H U
  • “When myrtle” B G
  • “Pleasing” D A
  • “To the Jordan which is” Q R
  • “A bowl from it” S ‘/E
  • “He who gave it to me” K L
  • “When marjoram” Z H
  • “Myrtle in the gardens” G D
The head contains the letters of the Mandaic alphabet.
Date
Source DC 41 (manuscript 41 in the Drower Collection of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University)
Author Copied for Colonel J. E. Taylor (Vice-Consul in Baghdad) in Šuštar in 1224 A.H. (1809–10) by Adam Yuhana, son of Sam Bihram (i.e., Ram Zihrun, son of Sam Bihram), of the Kamisia and Rish Draz clans

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Drawing of a human figure in Alma Rišaia Rba (MS DC 41)

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