https://hcommons.org/members/haberl/activity/ Activity feed for Charles Häberl. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4652f51048191e8f91db009414e501f4 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 13d03b6728e6bf79da6d4b62fefdb3bf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788504/ Mon, 25 Jul 2022 02:23:40 -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 3dca60430a46d9d9afe9226e1ed83f05 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788479/ Sun, 24 Jul 2022 14:31:18 -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 a5aec94119b33be3d63c7e36b0bbee2c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784827/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:59:09 -0400 0 8fe555ec9bc880cae6373fd48ff7f471 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784826/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:57:08 -0400 0 0b74c2fe398d8ca732b1973ff8899d8d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774877/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:53:24 -0400 Recording of a brief anecdote in Neo-Mandaic. "We heard yesterday, four or five days ago a Mandaean in Baghdad, whose name is Laith Anis Ḥamur, he was a jeweler who has gold. They came in upon him, he also had a weapon, they didn’t give him an opportunity to give up his weapon. They killed him, they took his gold jeweler, they took his mon…[Read more]

]]> 0 4735832462121e9bb0efb1d8b6e7f06b 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 3ce76c783c98615f5576be8aa49db6c4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1732769/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 02:23:42 -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 53bebcfac182e5886f4449be482037bd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1732704/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:37:08 -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 74756d9b1c91d8c2ce619c5a615cbded https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1710435/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:35:27 -0400 0 2425be9cd018bca4a5338632abfd81cb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707382/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 14:39:52 -0400 Versions of the folktale Zêrka Zêra (in Kurdish)/Stērka Zerá (in Ṭuroyo) circulate throughout southeastern Anatolia. The story belongs to a widely-disseminated tale type, the ‘Bear's Wife’, which concerns a young woman who is abducted by a bear (or other wilderness creature) and is forced to spawn and rear his children before escaping or being res…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d8fbb56a9017a260b52efe2138c9a5b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1704840/ Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:46:17 -0400 Description of a stone tablet from the site of Arslan Taş (near the town of ʻAyn al-ʻArab in the Aleppo Governorate of Syria). This description was originally intended to be a chapter for a textbook on North West Semitic epigraphy that was never realized.

]]> 0 9e86f940c796a06e4541c4693b5f04ec https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686904/ Mon, 11 May 2020 16:26:26 -0400 English translation of Midhat Sertoğlu, İlk Milletlerarası Dili Bir Türk İcat Etmişti, originally published in Hayat Tarih Mecmuası 1 (1966): 66–68

]]> 0 1909b332c64896fc76231b42c27ffc17 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686841/ Mon, 11 May 2020 01:05:21 -0400 English translation of Midhat Sertoğlu, İlk Milletlerarası Dili Bir Türk İcat Etmişti, originally published in Hayat Tarih Mecmuası 1 (1966): 66–68

]]> 0 d05f87152aa517bf9ea234068c0f1e39 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 9dfeb8e4b0d7ac1ce6eb61c13523b7d5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677706/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:25:21 -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 c125e078ec2644eabb8bf3c9d5e5faf2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677553/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:14:02 -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 5fdd01e569ba69cbe0cc741cb62104d1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637305/ Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:19:45 -0400 Iraqi Neo-Mandaic folktale glossed with interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses according to the Leipzig system.

]]> 0 62ba5cb59619f30c73d037c119b6a21c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635960/ Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:25:38 -0400 Mandaic (in the form generally described as ‘Neo-Mandaic’ or ‘Modern Mandaic’; ISO/DIS 639–3: mid) is the language of the Mandæan community, which was formerly based in Iraq and Iran (Map 26.1) but is today distributed throughout the world, principally in Europe, Australia and North America, as the result of ethnic cleansing in its homeland.…[Read more]

]]> 0 1aeaefc6a144d4702f537e79530403e6 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 e53216d1ca39c4b1910b6197bd729554 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620823/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 19:08:49 -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 695d4f79998533e54a013d7f86cd09ac https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1614641/ Sun, 05 Aug 2018 17:24:24 -0400 Swadesh List of 207 Common Terms in Neo-Mandaic (Khorramshahr and Ahwaz)

]]> 0 16ba2f37bcd8b1531c4f454c6545749f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1614640/ Sun, 05 Aug 2018 17:22:16 -0400 Some useful phrases to use when learning to speak Mandaic.

]]> 0 51142a5873861f499e79af7afefa51ed https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608619/ Thu, 17 May 2018 16:26:10 -0400 The Aramaic incantation texts from late antique Mesopotamia have been invoked as sources for the dialects of Late Aramaic, as well as sources on the religions of Late Antiquity, but outside of the small cabal of scholars who work on these texts, they are seldom viewed as a legitimate source of information about either. Often, they are deprecated…[Read more]

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