Alma Rišaia Rba
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The Alma Rišaia Rba or Diwan Alma Rišaia Rabbā (Classical Mandaic: ࡀࡋࡌࡀ ࡓࡉࡔࡀࡉࡀ ࡓࡁࡀ, "The Great Supreme World" or "The Great First World") is a Mandaean religious text. The text is used for Mandaean priestly initiation ceremonies. It is written as a scroll. The Alma Rišaia Rba complements the Alma Rišaia Zuṭa, or "The Smaller Supreme World", a related Mandaic text used for priestly rituals.[1]
Manuscripts and translations[]
An English translation of the text was published by E. S. Drower in 1963, which was based on manuscript 41 of the Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 41). The manuscript consists of 8 parts. It was copied in 1224 A.H. (1809 or 1810 A.D.).[2] The DC 41 manuscript contains an illustration with Qolasta prayer 79 in scrambled form, and the text also has a scrambled version of Qolasta prayer 82 (which is also quoted in the Book 4 of the Right Ginza).[1]
Add. 23,602B, Kholasta sive liturgica Sabiorum Libri Joannis Fragmenta Mendaice is a book of fragments that was probably obtained by Colonel John George Taylor. It contains fragments of Maṣbuta ḏ-Hibil Ziua and Alma Rišaia Rba.[3]
Prayer sequence[]
In Alma Rišaia Rba, the prescribed sequence of Qolasta prayers (numbered below according to Drower's 1959 Canonical Prayerbook) to be recited is as follows.[2]
- 1, 3, 5, 19
- 7
- 33-34
- 75-77
- 9, 35
- 34
- 45-70
- 29
- 71-72
- 91
- 32-34
- 75-77
- 9, 35
- 44-49
- 3
- 50-64, 66-69
- 91-99
- 71
- 100
- 71-72
- 101-103
- 63
- 108
- 3
- 35
- 9
- 58
- 65
- 71
- 170
- 36
- 59-60
- 72
- 80
- 2, 4
- 1, 3, 5, 19
- 32-34
- 75-77
- 9
- 35-70
- 91
- 96
- 79-80
- 33
- 81
- 34
- 1
- 75-77
- 9
- 35-36
- 44-69
- 91-99
- 70
- 102
- 71-72
- 80
- 101-102
- 63
- 58 (?)
- 3
- 35
- 58 (?)
- 65 (?)
- 76
- 170
- 80 (?)
- 178
See also[]
- Alma Rišaia
- Alma Rišaia Zuṭa
- The Coronation of the Great Shishlam
- Scroll of Exalted Kingship
- The Thousand and Twelve Questions
References[]
- ^ a b Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
- ^ a b Drower, E. S. 1963. A Pair of Naṣoraean Commentaries: Two Priestly Documents, the Great First World and the Lesser First World. Leiden: Brill.
- ^ Vinklát, Marek (2020-07-06). "Two Unidentified Fragments of Mandaean Ritual Scrolls in the British Museum". Coptica, Gnostica und Mandaica. De Gruyter. pp. 188–195. doi:10.1515/9783110619904-010.
External links[]
- Full text at Archive.org
- Alma Rishaia Rba (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network)
- Alma Rishaia Rba (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network)
- Mandaean texts