The Scroll of the Great Baptism (
Classical Mandaic: ࡔࡀࡓࡇ ࡖࡌࡀࡑࡁࡅࡕࡀ ࡓࡀࡁࡕࡉࡀŠarḥ ḏ-Maṣbuta Rabtia[1]) is a
Mandaean religious text. It is a ritual scroll describing the 360 baptisms (
masbutas) for a polluted priest. The scroll is also called "Fifty Baptisms" and the Raza Rba ḏ-Zihrun (
Classical Mandaic: ࡓࡀࡆࡀ ࡓࡁࡀ ࡖࡆࡉࡄࡓࡅࡍ,
lit. 'Great Mystery of
Zihrun').[2]
Manuscripts
Manuscript 50 of the
Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 50) is a copy of the Scroll of the Great Baptism. It was copied in 1867 by
Yahya Bihram and has 962 lines.[2] Güterbock (2008) contains an analysis of the manuscript.[3]
^Drower, E. S. 1960. The Secret Adam: A Study of Nasoraean Gnosis. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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abBuckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press.
ISBN978-1-59333-621-9.
^Güterbock, Michael (2008). "Vorläufige Bemerkungen zu einer Ausgabe der mandäischen Rituale in der Drower Collection 50". Und das Leben ist siegreich!: mandäische und samaritanische Literatur: im Gedenken an Rudolf Macuch (1919-1993) = And life is victorious: Mandaean and Samaritan literatures: in memory of Rudolf Macuch (in German). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
ISBN978-3-447-05178-1.
OCLC310616930.