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Od Gilgamesza do kasydy. Poezja semicka w oryginale i w przekładzie (From Gilgamesh to Qasida: Semitic Poetry in Original Version and in Translation), Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2010 [471 pp.] Orientalista zwykł czytać teksty poetyckie... more
Diese ungewöhnliche Zauberschale mit einem hekhalotischen Einschub in aramäisch ist mir in einer deutschen Privatsammlung aufgefallen. Sie wurde bereits in der Sektion für Judaistik des XXVIII. Deutschen Orientalistentages in Bamberg 2001... more
Neo-Mandaic is the modern reflex of Classical Mandaic, the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community of Iraq and Iran. Severely endangered, it survives today as the first language of a small number of Mandaeans (possibly as... more
Preprint from V. Golinets et. al (eds.), Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Sechstes Treffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 09.–11. Februar 2013 in Heidelberg
Draft article on the Endangered Languages of the Middle East and North Africa for the next edition of the Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages (Routledge).
To what degree should we be prepared to accept the Mandæans’ own accounts of their origins, as opposed to external accounts and those constructed for them by scholars? This question – often implied, but seldom articulated – lies at the... more
Mandaic (in the form generally described as ‘Neo-Mandaic’ or ‘Modern Mandaic’; ISO/DIS 639–3: mid) is the language of the Mandæan community, which was formerly based in Iraq and Iran (Map 26.1) but is today distributed throughout the... more
This article deals with written Aramaic magic of Mesopotamia of Late Antiq-uity and focuses mainly on Mandaic and Jewish magic bowls and metal amu-lets. It tries to prove the connection between these Jewish texts and Mandaic texts, since... more
This is the final version of an article submitted to ARAM periodical for publication. The version that was eventually published was a previous draft for which the authors were never shown proofs. The published version contained the... more
The Mandaeans are the members of an ethno-religious group living in Iran and Iraq. The religion of the Mandaeans is a written tradition and is the main reference of their identity. As a small endogamous group under the hegemony of the... more
The first part of this article examined the features that distinguish the language of the earliest Mandaean colophons from Classical Mandaic and demonstrated that many of these features are shared with the contemporary Neo-Mandaic... more
The present article presents four new linguistic features that link Early-Mandaic and Neo-Mandaic: 1. Diphthongization and fortition of long vowels ū/ī: ṭbukta “grace”, arbiktinkia “four of you (f.pl.)”; 2. Apheresis of y in the gentilic... more
The Glossarium Sabicum, Persicum, Turcicum, et Arabicum (henceforth, Glossarium) is a quarto manuscript in the collection of the Leiden University Library, where it is accessioned as Acad. 222. Even though the Glossarium has the... more
The paper addresses the Mandaeans' long lasting identity challenge as a small ethno-religious group living under the threat of cultural extinction. The Mandaeans are followers of an ancient gnostic tradion and they have been living in... more
Orientalia 86 (2017), pp. 253-273.
The most characteristic figures in the Mandaean religion are the beings known as the eutria. unlike the supreme being, who remains largely aloof from the material world, the eutria repeatedly intervene in the affairs of mankind to protect... more
Yahia Bihram, a pivotal figure in the Mandaean community of the 19 th century, composed several autobiographical texts. This article presents a new edition of one of his lengthiest works, incorporating numerous corrected readings based... more
While the broader question of Mandaean origins is a vexing and contentious one, the consensus among western scholars that has emerged over the previous century maintains that the Mandaeans’ own accounts of their origins are completely... more
Mandaeans vi. Neo-Mandaic Language or modern Mandaic, the contemporary form of Mandaic, the language of the Mandaean religious community of Iraq and Iran. As such, it is the only known form of any of the classical literary dialects of... more
For an expanded version of this paper published in Hebrew see:... more
The fragmentary Ugaritic text RS 16.266 (= KTU 1-3 1.83) contains a number of lexical and other problems exacerbated by the state of the tablet and difficulties in defining the plot and characters involved in the text. One of these... more
Aramaic Studies 16 (2018), pp. 182–205.
Aula Orientalis 33/2 (2015) 271-286. Final Proof. This article presents the editio princeps of a Mandaic lamella from the Martin Schøyen collection. In the accompanying commentary, several Mandaic lexemes are discussed: abulia... more
In his Fihrist, the tenth-century scholar Ibn al-Nadīm produces a list of seventy names of demons, unfortunately without providing any information on his sources. Five names mentioned clearly contain the Semitic theophoric element <’l>... more
Mandaic incantations follow a certain set-up that was inherited by the Mandaean scholars from the Babylonian scribes during the period of the outgoing temple cults in the triangle of the cities of Babylon, Borsippa, and Kutha. The Mandaic... more
Browsing the Internet for the Mandaeans one comes across the website “Mandaean World”, where one can read under the logo of the Uroboros snake, the gnostic serpent encircling the world: “The origins of both the peo- ple, and of the... more