The Mandaeans are a Gnostic sect that arose in the middle east around the same time as Christianity. What little study of the religion there has been has focuse

Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as inca

The Haran Gawaita (Mandaic "Inner Haran" or "Inner Hauran") is a Mandaean text which purports to tell the history of the Mandaeans and their arrival in Media as

This historical study argues that the Mandaean religion originated under Sasanid rule in the fifth century, not earlier as has been widely accepted. It analyzes