Knowledge Commons | Gnosticism | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/gnosticism/ Activity feed for the group, Gnosticism. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:39:29 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4652f51048191e8f91db009414e501f4 Charles Häberl deposited Meryay, Standing at the Boundary in the group Gnosticism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788505/ Mon, 25 Jul 2022 02:23:43 -0400 The Mandaean proselyte Meryay, best known from her representations in the Canonical Prayerbook, the Great Treasure (Genzā Rabbā), and the Book of John (Drāši d-Yaḥyā), serves as an illuminating example of the sort of figure who partially and ambiguously bridges the interests and concerns of differently constituted religious communities, allowi…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb9acfae5c158fd5a8490df3398a3cb0 Albert R Haig deposited Dialectic as Ostension Towards the Transcendent: Language and Mystical Intersubjectivity in Plotinus’ Enneads in the group Gnosticism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772416/ Sun, 20 Feb 2022 02:24:18 -0500 The theory of language that underlies Plotinus’ Enneads is considered in relation to his
broader metaphysical vision. For Plotinus, language is neither univocal nor equivocal,
but is something in-between, incapable of precisely describing reality, but nonetheless
not completely useless. Propositional knowledge expressed discursively r…[Read more]

]]> 0 4735832462121e9bb0efb1d8b6e7f06b Charles Häberl deposited Mandaic and the Palestinian Question in the group Gnosticism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1732770/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 02:23:44 -0400 In his 1875 description of the language, Theodor Nöldeke describes Mandaic as among the purest of the Aramaic languages and the furthest from Western Aramaic, particularly with respect to its lexicon. As Mandæans identify their faith with that of John the Baptist and his community of followers, this observation is not without relevance for a…[Read more]

]]> 0 d05f87152aa517bf9ea234068c0f1e39 Charles Häberl deposited The Mandaean Book of John in the group Gnosticism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677707/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:25:22 -0500 Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab321ce412aaaf4d6331dbfea7a35fa9 Dirk Kruisheer deposited Theodore bar Koni’s Ktābā d-’Eskolyon as a Source for the Study of Early Mandaeism in the group Gnosticism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666192/ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:25:49 -0400 D. Kruisheer, ‘Theodore bar Koni’s Ktābā d-’Eskolyon as a Source for the Study of Early Mandaeism’, Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap “Ex Oriente Lux” (Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society “Ex Oriente Lux”) 33 (1993-1994), 151-169.

]]> 0 1aeaefc6a144d4702f537e79530403e6 Charles Häberl deposited From Jerusalem to the Karûn: What Can Mandaean Geographies Tell Us? in the group Gnosticism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620897/ Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:25:26 -0400 To what degree should we be prepared to accept the Mandæans’ own accounts of their origins, as opposed to external accounts and those constructed for them by scholars? This question – often implied, but seldom articulated – lies at the heart of all scholarship on the Mandæans over the last hundred years or more.

]]> 0 1df9aee62b9849b792501fda20ee2922 Augusto Cosentino created the group Gnosticism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590207/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 23:44:00 -0500 0