Religion:Diwan Abatur
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Short description: Mandaean text
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| Religion | Mandaeism |
| Language | Mandaic language |
The Diwan Abatur ("Scroll of Abatur") is a Mandaean religious text. It is a large illustrated scroll that is over 20 ft. long.[1]
A similar illustrated Mandaean scroll is the Diwan Nahrawata ("The Scroll of the Rivers"), a lavishly illustrated geographical treatise which translated into German and published by Kurt Rudolph in 1982.[1]
Translations
An English translation of the text was published by E. S. Drower in 1950, which was based on manuscript 8 of the Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 8).[2]
Gallery
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An 18th-century Diwan Abatur in the Bodleian Library, Oxford -
Image of Abatur from the Diwan Abatur -
Image of Abatur at the scales, from the Diwan Abatur
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
- ↑ Drower, Ethel S. (1950). Diwan Abatur or Progress through the Purgatories. Studi e Testi. 151. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
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