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Haran Gawaita
Mandaean Scriptures
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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.
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