{"id":2109,"date":"2009-09-16T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/a-pair-of-nasoraean-commentaries-partially-online\/"},"modified":"2009-09-16T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T15:38:00","slug":"a-pair-of-nasoraean-commentaries-partially-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/a-pair-of-nasoraean-commentaries-partially-online.html","title":{"rendered":"A Pair Of Nasoraean Commentaries Partially Online"},"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>Among the books available in limited preview via Google Books is E. S. Drower\u2019s translation of two Mandaean priestly commentaries, known as the \u201cGreat First World\u201d and the \u201cLesser First World\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t own a copy of Drower\u2019s translation (which is what is on Google Books), but I am delighted to be the owner of the facsimile of the text that was published together with Drower\u2019s translation. It is in the form of two small scrolls, packaged for safekeeping in a cardboard tube. It is by far the most interesting item on my bookshelves!<\/p>\n<p>Also intriguing is <a href=\"http:\/\/ginzarba.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the website I happened across today, dedicated to the Ginza Rba<\/a> and with the promise that the site is \u201ccoming soon\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1218705217318306997?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the books available in limited preview via Google Books is E. S. Drower\u2019s translation of two Mandaean priestly commentaries, known as the \u201cGreat First World\u201d and the \u201cLesser First World\u201d. I don\u2019t own a copy of Drower\u2019s translation (which is what is on Google Books), but I am delighted to be the owner of [&hellip;]<\/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-2109","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>A Pair Of Nasoraean Commentaries Partially Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Among the books available in limited preview via Google Books is E. S. 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