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Dmut Kušṭa

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Dmut Kušṭa Diwan ḏ-Qadaha Rba Šuma ḏ-Mara ḏ-Rabuta u-Dmut Kušṭa
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Religion	Mandaeism
Language	Mandaic language

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The Diwan ḏ-Qadaha Rba Šuma ḏ-Mara ḏ-Rabuta u-Dmut Kušṭa (Classical Mandaic: ࡃࡉࡅࡀࡍ ࡖࡒࡀࡃࡀࡄࡀ ࡓࡁࡀ ࡔࡅࡌࡀ ࡖࡌࡀࡓࡀ ࡖࡓࡀࡁࡅࡕࡀ ࡅࡃࡌࡅࡕ ࡊࡅࡔࡈࡀ; "The Scroll of the Great Prayer, the Name of the Lord of Greatness and the Image of Truth"), or simply the Dmut Kušṭa (orDmuth Kushta), is a Mandaean religious text. It is written as an illustrated scroll. No published translation of the text currently exists.^[1]

Manuscripts

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The Bodleian LibraryatOxford University holds a manuscript of the text, catalogued as Ms. Asiat. Misc. C 12. The scroll was copied by Yahia Ram Zihrun, son of Mhatam in 1818 in Qurna. It was acquired by E. S. Drower in 1954.^[1]

In 1969, Kurt Rudolph had also seen a copy of the text at a private library in Dora, Baghdad.^[2]

In 2002, a published version of the Dmut Kušṭaintypeset Mandaic script has been published by Majid Fandi al-Mubaraki, a Mandaean living in Australia.^[3]

References

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^ ^a ^b Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.

^ Rudolph, Kurt (1975).『Quellenprobleme zur Ursprung und Alter der Mandäer.』In Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, edited by Jacob Neusner, vol. 4: Studies for Morton Smith at Sixty, 112–42. Leiden: Brill. Reprinted in Gnosis und Spätantike Religionsgeschichte, 402–32. In p. 166 n. 39.

^ Al-Mubaraki, Majid Fandi (2002). Dmuth kushta. Mandaean Diwan. Vol. 6. Sydney. ISBN 1-876888-06-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Bibliography

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Nasoraia, Brikha (2022). A Critical Edition, with Translation and Analytical Study of Diwan Qadaha Rba D-Dmuth Kusta (The Scroll of Great Creation of the Image/Likeness of Truth) (forthcoming). Belgium: Brepols Publishers.
Nasoraia, Brikha (2022). The Esoteric and Mystical Concepts of the Mandaean Nasoraean Illustrated Scroll: Diwan Qadaha Rba D-dmuth Kusta (the Scroll of the Great Creation of the Image/likeness of Truth) (forthcoming). Belgium: Brepols Publishers.
Nasoraia, Brikha H.S. (2013). "Mandaean Sacred Art: A Brief Study of Folio 6 of the Secret Mandaean Scroll Diwan Qadaha Rba d-Dmuth Kušţa (The Scroll of Great Creation of the Image of Truth)". The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society. 2 (4). Common Ground Research Networks: 33–45. doi:10.18848/2154-8633/cgp/v02i04/51025. ISSN 2154-8633.
Nasoraia, Brikha (2010). The Esoteric and Mystical Concepts of the Mandaean Nasoraean Illustrated Scroll: Diwan Qadaha Rba D-dmuth Kusta (the Scroll of the Great Creation of the Image/likeness of Truth). Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney.
Nasoraia, Brikha (2005). A critical edition with translation and analytical study of Diuan Qadaha Rba D-Dmuth Kušṭa (the Scroll of the Great Creation of the Image/Likeness of Truth) (Ph.D. dissertation). Sydney: Dept. of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, University of Sydney. OCLC 225252988.