the haran gawaitha and the baptism of hibil ziwa
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THE HARAN GAWAITA-AND
THE BAPTISM OF HIBIL-ZIWA\
THE MANDAIC TEXT REPRODUCED
TOGETHER WITH TRANSLATION, NOTES AND COMMENTARY
BY
E. S. DROWER
CITTABJBLIOTECA
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TRANSLATORS NOTE
~ The Haran Gawaita, on account of its fragmentary charadfer,has suffered more than any other Mandaean text at the hands oflate copyists who emended and edited parts which were faulty ormisunderstood. Their grammatical solecisms and misspellings haveadded to the difEculty of translating an already obscure text. Themost sanguine of translators could hardly claim with a clear con-science that the more dif8cult and involved passages had been ade-quately rendered into English. The present translator isaware tha tsome renderings are too free and others too literal, and can only
most dimcult of all the Mand-aean books, the Kabbalistic portions of the AZf lrisar 8wialiaexbepted. It abounds in ambiguous woras and phrartes and its pre-dktions concerning the future are often veiledby a dark vaguenessoflanguage a& to that employed by Nostradarnus and others whohave peered into the future. The prophecy concerning the returnof the Messiah, although it calls Jesus a false messiah, paintsB picture unexpectedly fair ofHis reign on earth. One is inclinedto wonder ifa Christian text has been inserted or whether a pamagerecounting His downfall has disappeared from the original.
1 The colophon attached to D. C. 9 is more than usually illiterateand I have not translated it.
r indulgence on such counts.heHaran Gawaita is perhaps t
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HARAN GAWAITA(D. C. 9., D. C. 36)
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DIWAN MASBUTA d HIBIL ZIWA(D. C. 35)
The Scroll of the Baptism of Hibil Ziwa
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96 Diwm MasbulaZ i a . 102. Yawar-Rba brother ofAbatur-Rama. 103'. Z?hm-Bbbhis brother, son of Yadatan-Rba. 104. Zihrun-Rba, son ofiA&hnRba. 105. Anan-Nsab-Rba son of Adatan-Rba. 106. Nqab-Rbson ofAdatan-Rba. 107. Sam-Rba son of Adatan-Rba. 1.08,R&mZiwa his son, brother of the son ofKimsa-Yaqra. 109. Samandar'&Rba his great brother, son of Kimsa-Yaqra. 110. Tarwan-Rb eonof Kiinsa-Rba. 111. Tarwan-Rba son of Nbat-Rba. 112, PatrunRba son of Nbafi-Rba. 113. Hibil-Ziwa-Rba son of Nbat-Rba114. Br-Hiia-Rb; ion of Hal-Kana-Rba. 115. Mandzl-d-ECiiWRbson ofHal-Kana-Rba. 116. Tarwan-Rba son ofKana-Rba. 117. Ypsmir-Rba son ofKana-Rba. 118. Yadatan-Rba son ofYusmir-Rba119. Mana-Kasia son of Yusmh-Ziwa.
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