Edmondo Lupieri's The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics is a major scholarly study of the Mandaean religion, the small Gnostic tradition centered on veneration of John the Baptist and surviving today mainly among Iraqi and Iranian diaspora communities, written by a specialist in ancient and late antique religious movements. Its authority comes from Lupieri's close engagement with Mandaean religious texts and historical sources tracing the tradition's origins and transmission, a genuinely difficult subject given the Mandaeans' own historical isolation and the limited outside scholarship devoted to them. As with much scholarship on small, historically obscure traditions, questions of Mandaean origins and their precise relationship to early Jewish, Christian and Gnostic movements remain areas of ongoing academic reconstruction rather than settled fact, and Lupieri's account represents a serious, well-regarded scholarly position within that continuing inquiry.
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Edmondo Lupieri's The Mandaeans, The Last Gnostics, published by the academic religious studies press Eerdmans, is a major peer reviewed scholarly study by a specialist in ancient and late antique religious movements, treated at the top tier. NotesA second full length scholarly account of Mandaeism, tracing the tradition's reception in the West from a thirteenth century Dominican friar to present day scholarship and covering its cosmology and community independently of Buckley's account, already the live source.
Citation
AuthorEdmondo Lupieri
PublisherEerdmans
Publication Year2002
URLhttps://www.eerdmans.com/9780802833501/the-mandaeans/
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Baptist directly: "centered on veneration of John the Baptist and surviving today mainly among Iraqi and Iranian diaspora communities, written by a specialist in ancient and late antique religious movements."
John, Figures This source names John directly: "tradition centered on veneration of John the Baptist and surviving today mainly among Iraqi and Iranian diaspora communities, written by a specialist in ancient and late antique religious movements."
This source names John the Baptist directly: "tradition centered on veneration of John the Baptist and surviving today mainly among Iraqi and Iranian diaspora communities, written by a specialist in ancient and late antique religious movements."
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This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Rituals, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Doctrines, 3 claims: 3 general references.
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