Mandaism

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Mandaismus, equivalent to Manda +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmændeɪ.ɪzəm/, /mænˈdeɪ.ɪzəm/
  • Rhymes: -eɪɪzəm

Noun

Mandaism (plural Mandaisms)

  1. An idiom or other feature borrowed from Mandaic.
    Hypernym: Aramaism
    • 1913, James A. Montgomery, Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur‎[1], Philadelphia, page 35:
      For other similar Mandaisms we may note: […]
    • 1990, Orientalia Christiana Analecta‎[2], page 372:
      As to the Syriac bowls, Montgomery had already referred to Mandaisms in the Syriac texts […]
    • 1999, Studia Orientalia‎[3], page 88:
      Montgomery, owing to the limited knowledge of Babylonian Jewish Aramaic in his time, interpreted many of the features simply as Mandaisms.

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Proper noun

Mandaism

  1. Alternative spelling of Mandaeism (“a monotheistic religion laying emphasis on John the Baptist”).
    • 1836, Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis‎[4], page 657:
      M. Matter has given the meaning of Manda, the origin of Mandaism in the word Gnosis.
    • 1871, William Wright, Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles‎[5], volume 2, page xiv:
      The former of these hymns is a most curious document, and savours rather of Gnosticism or Mandaism than of genuine Christianity.
    • 1898, H. Hirschfeld, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland‎[6], page 908:
      He is otherwise inclined to place confidence in Theodor's information as to the person of the founder of Mandaism, […]
    • 1925, Moses Gaster, The Samaritans: Their History, Doctrines and Literature‎[7], page 87:
      Gnosticism, Manichaism, and Mandaism found numerous adherents; […]
    • 1968, C. H. Dodd, “Mandaism”, in The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel‎[8], Cambridge University Press, page 129:
      Mandaism is best understood as fundamentally a Gnostic system, comparable though not identical with various Gnostic systems known to us, which combine elements drawn in varying degrees from Iranian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Jewish and Christian sources, with Greek philosophy somewhere in the background (in Mandaism very much in the background).

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