Diwan Abatur
The Diwan Abatur (Classical Mandaic: ࡃࡉࡅࡀࡍ ࡀࡁࡀࡕࡅࡓ; "Scroll of Abatur") is a Mandaean religious text. It is a large illustrated scroll that is over 20 ft. long.[1]
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A similar illustrated Mandaean scroll is the Diwan Nahrawata ("The Scroll of the Rivers"), a lavishly illustrated geographical treatise which translated into German and published by Kurt Rudolph in 1982.[1]
Manuscripts and translations
An English translation of the text was published by E. S. Drower in 1950, which was based on manuscript 8 of the Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 8).[2]
In 2020, Bogdan Burtea translated the Diwan Abatur into German.[3]
Gallery
An 18th-century Diwan Abatur in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Image of Abatur from the Diwan Abatur
Image of Abatur at the scales, from the Diwan Abatur
References
- Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
- Drower, Ethel S. (1950). Diwan Abatur or Progress through the Purgatories. Studi e Testi. 151. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
- "Diwan Abatur: Ein Text über die Jenseitsreise der Seele nach den Vorstellungen der Mandäer. Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar. - Research Portal of the HU Berlin". Research Information System of HU Berlin (in German). 2021-04-01. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
External links
- Diwan Abathur (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network)
- Diwan Abathur (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network)
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