{"id":1073,"date":"2010-08-01T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/photo-essay-about-the-mandaeans\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T20:17:00","slug":"photo-essay-about-the-mandaeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/photo-essay-about-the-mandaeans.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo-Essay About The Mandaeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/paleojudaica.blogspot.com\/2010_08_01_archive.html#40992845482345337\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim Davila<\/a> kindly shared excerpts and a link to a photo-essay about the Mandaeans, entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.payvand.com\/news\/10\/jul\/1284.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photos: As Old as Water Itself \u2013 the Mandaeans of Iran, followers of John the Baptist.<\/a>\u201d <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/payvand.com\/news\/10\/jul\/Mandaean_iran_john_the_Baptist_1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/payvand.com\/news\/10\/jul\/Mandaean_iran_john_the_Baptist_1.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8929351784284515520?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Davila kindly shared excerpts and a link to a photo-essay about the Mandaeans, entitled \u201cPhotos: As Old as Water Itself \u2013 the Mandaeans of Iran, followers of John the Baptist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Photo-Essay About The Mandaeans<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jim Davila kindly shared excerpts and a link to a photo-essay about the Mandaeans, entitled &quot;Photos: As Old as Water Itself - the Mandaeans of Iran,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/photo-essay-about-the-mandaeans.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photo-Essay About The Mandaeans\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jim Davila kindly shared excerpts and a link to a photo-essay about the Mandaeans, entitled &quot;Photos: As Old as Water Itself - the Mandaeans of Iran,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/photo-essay-about-the-mandaeans.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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