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Title: The Mandaeans and the Question of their Origin
Author(s): MÜLLER-KESSLER, C.
Journal: ARAM Periodical
Volume: 16    Date: 2004   
Pages: 47-60
DOI: 10.2143/ARAM.16.0.504671

Abstract :
The author want to re-open the discussion of the 'Mandäerfrage'. Through their literary works they kept their traditions alive, overcoming all kinds of external difficulties. Their exile could mean the end of two thousand years history of gnostics. Many Mandaeans were driven out their homeland after the first Gulf War in 1990, the last so-called 'liberation' of Iraq came too late for them.

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