The Haran Gawaita (Inner Harran) is a short Mandaean historical and origin text recounting the community's legendary migration from Jerusalem to Mesopotamia under persecution, and is a principal source scholars draw on, alongside the Ginza Rabba and the Mandaean Book of John, for reconstructing Mandaean self-understanding of the community's own early history, distinct from those two larger cosmological and hagiographic works.
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StructureA short historical narrative recounting the community's legendary migration from Jerusalem to Mesopotamia under persecution; used alongside the Ginza Rabba and the Mandaean Book of John as a source for reconstructing Mandaean self-understanding of its own early history. 1 Origins
Attributed Author / CompilerAnonymous Mandaean community composition 1 Text
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The Haran Gawaita names the Ginza Rabba, the Great Treasure, as Mandaeism's principal scripture.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Belongs to Tradition
Source The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern PeopleJorunn Jacobsen Buckley
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Source The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern PeopleJorunn Jacobsen Buckley
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1. The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern People
Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, Oxford University Press, 2002- on the Haran Gawaita and Mandaean origin traditions
- Originates in Language: Classical Mandaic, Stored language property on this entity, cited to this source: classical-mandaic
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