The Thousand and Twelve Questions

The Thousand and Twelve Questions (Classical Mandaic: ࡀࡋࡐ ࡕࡓࡉࡎࡀࡓ ࡔࡅࡉࡀࡋࡉࡀ Alf Trisar Šuialia) is a Mandaean religious text. The 1012 Questions is one of the most detailed texts on Mandaean priestly rituals.[1]

The Thousand and Twelve Questions
Alf Trisar Šuialia
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The text contains detailed commentaries on Mandaean religious rituals, such as death masses (masiqta) to help guide souls into the World of Light, and the Mandaean wedding ceremony. It is written as a scroll.[1] A detailed overview of the contents can be found in Drower (1941).[2]

Manuscripts and translations

An English translation of the text was published by E. S. Drower in 1960, which was based on manuscript 36 of the Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 36). DC 6 is an incomplete manuscript of The Thousand and Twelve Questions in the Drower Collection missing books 1-2, but DC 36 is the complete version with all 7 books included.[3]

Contents

Contents of the 7 parts of the 1012 Questions:[3]

  • Book 1
    • Part 1: The Questions which Shishlam-Rba and Hibil-Ziwa asked of their father Nbaṭ (a diwan; title as mentioned in section 201, p. 158)
    • Part 2: The explanation of the body (Tafsir Pagra)
  • Book 2
    • Part 3.1: Accidental impurity and its cure
    • Part 3.2: "The Three"
    • Part 4: The agreed form of the masiqta of Shitil; of the Ṭabahata and of the Dukrania
    • Part 5.1: Blow and healing
    • Part 5.2: The celebration of the marriage of Shishlam-Rba, son of Lihdaia-Rba-Zadiqa
    • Part 6.1: Burial
    • Part 6.2: Of postulants and priesthood
    • Part 7: Concerning the postulant's first baptism – admonitions

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References
  1. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
  2. Drower, E. S. (1941). "The Alf Trisar Šuialia". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2): 101–126. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00093424. ISSN 0035-869X. JSTOR 25221732. S2CID 162482018.
  3. Drower, Ethel S. (1960). The Thousand and Twelve Questions: A Mandaean Text (Alf Trisar Šuialia). Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
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