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Redeemers in Mandaic (1)

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11 Language, communication, libraries and education





05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



Keywords
Mandaic language
naming
Period
Neo-Babylonian Empire
Sasanid Empire
Channel
Neo-Babylonian texts
Mandean culture


Text
Shafta ḏ Pishra ḏ Ainia 449:
In the Mandaic magical text “The scroll of the annihilation of the Eyes”, there occurs a word piṭrunia (line 449) which probably is a word of Babylonian origin, from Akkadian piṭru “redeemer”. This Babylonian word occurs in a very similar context, in the anti-witchcraft series Maqlû 4.89 as 7 piṭ-ru-u-a “my seven redeemers”.


Sources (list of abbreviations)
Maqlû 4.89
Shafta ḏ Pishra ḏ Ainia 449

Bibliography

Drower 1938, 18-19 (a note of S. Langdon)Drower, Ethel Stefana. “S̱ẖafta ḏ Pis̱ẖra ḏ Ainia. A Mandaean Magical Text Translated and Transliterated. Part 2.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1938) 1-20.

Amar Annus


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