Scroll of the Parwanaya

The Scroll of the Parwanaya (Classical Mandaic: Šarḥ ḏ-Parwanaia‎) is a Mandaean religious text that describes the rituals of the five-day Parwanaya festival. Excluding the colophon, the text consists of 931 lines.[1]

Scroll of the Parwanaya
Šarḥ ḏ-Parwanaia
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Manuscripts and translations

Copies of the scroll include Manuscript 24 of the Drower Collection (DC 24), currently held at the Bodleian Library.[2] The scroll was originally copied by Yahya Bihram in 1832 at his sister's son's house in Muhammerah (Khorramshahr), Iran.[3] The scroll was analyzed and translated into German by Bogdan Burtea in 2005.[2][4]

Contents

The contents of the scroll are as follows.[2]

  • Lines 1-81: Ritual preliminaries
  • Lines 82-99: šarh d-qnasa d-iuna d-paruanaiia "The dove sacrifice of the Parwanaya"
  • Lines 99-243: šarh d-dukrana lhdaia rba zadiqa "The memorial of the dead (dukrana) of the only great righteous"
  • Lines 244-300: šarh d-ahaba d-mania b-iuma d-paruanaiia mandaiia gabra eu enta eu rba eu zuṭa "The offering of the garments on the day of Parwanaya (to all) Mandaeans, man or woman, great or small"
  • Lines 301-342: šarh d-ahaba d-mania d-tarmida eu ganzibra "The offering of the garments of a priest or a ganzibra"
  • Lines 343-578: šarh d-ṭabahata "The fathers/parents (ṭabahata)"
  • Lines 579-806: šarh d-dukrana d-sumaiia "The remembrance of the dead (dukrana) of the names"
  • Lines 807-931: šarh d-zidqa brika d-paruanaiia "The blessed alms of the Parwanaya"
  • Lines 932-53v: colophon

See also

References
  1. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
  2. Burtea, Bogdan (2005). Das mandäische Fest der Schalttage: Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentierung der Handschrift (DC 24, Šarh ḏ-paruanaiia) (in German). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-05179-8. OCLC 62273841.
  3. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
  4. Häberl, Charles G. (2007). Review of Bogdan Burtea, Das mandäische Fest der Schalttage (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005). In: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 127(2), 208–210. American Oriental Society. doi:10.7282/T3GX48XP
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