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The Book of the Zodiac Classical Mandaic : ࡎࡐࡀࡓ ࡌࡀࡋࡅࡀࡔࡉࡀ , romanized: Sfar Malwašia Mandaean text . It covers Mandaean astrology in great detail.[1] Mandaean's baptismal name (malwasha ).[2] numerology .[3]
Manuscripts and translations
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An English translation of the text, based on Manuscript 31 of the Drower Collection (DC 31 ), was published by E. S. Drower in 1949.[4] kurasa , or unbound manuscript consisting of loose sheets.[5]
Buckley has also located a privately held copy of the Book of the Zodiac dating from 1919, which belonged to Lamea Abbas Amara in San Diego .[6]
There is also a manuscript of the Book of the Zodiac from 1789 CE that is currently held at the Bibliothèque National in Paris, which was used by Drower and may have also been used by Nicolas Siouffi .[5]
Contents
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Drower's manuscript (DC 31) consists of 289 pages in Mandaic. There are 20 individual books or sections, which are:[5] : 44–48
Book 1 : The Book of the Signs of the Zodiac for Men
Book 2 : The Book of the Signs of the Zodiac for Women
Book 3 : The Book of Stars
Book 4 : lists of astrological terms and calculations
Book 5 : The Book of the Moon
Book 6 : charms against evil spirits
Book 7 : charms against evil spirits
Book 8 : The Days of the Month
Book 9 : illnesses
Book 10 : astrological information
Book 11 : selecting days for certain activities
Book 12 : The Opening of a Door
Book 13 : predictions
Book 14 : predictions
Book 15 : predictions
Book 16 : predictions
Book 17 : geographical regions governed by the planets and zodiac signs
Book 18 : predictions
Book 19 : transits of Saturn , halos of the sun , meteors and comets, and rainfall
Book 20 : meteorology
There is also an appendix (labeled as Part II in Drower's text) that discusses omens, predictions, remedies, eclipses, and other topics.[5]
See also
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References
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^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5 OCLC 65198443 .
^ Rudolph, Kurt. "Mandaeans" . The Gnostic Society Library . Retrieved 6 November 2021 .
^ Häberl, Charles G. (2023). "Binding the Lion: Numerology in the Mandaean Tradition" . SSRN Electronic Journal . Elsevier BV. doi :10.2139/ssrn.4502834 . ISSN 1556-5068 . S2CID 259863711 . SSRN 4502834 .
^ Drower, Ethel S. (1949). The Book of the Zodiac: Sfar Malwašia . London: Murray.
^ a b c d Masco, Maire (2012). The Mandaeans: Gnostic astrology as an artifact of cultural transmission . Tacoma, WA: Fluke Press. ISBN 978-1-938476-00-6 OCLC 864905792 .
^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history . Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9
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a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● M o b i l e v i e w
