{"id":2280,"date":"2009-07-12T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/07\/there-and-back-again\/"},"modified":"2009-07-12T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:41:00","slug":"there-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/07\/there-and-back-again.html","title":{"rendered":"There And Back Again"},"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>This is just a quick post to say that I\u2019m back from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aramsociety.org\/forthcomingconferences.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">conference about the Mandaeans in Oxford<\/a>. It was really excellent. Even though the papers reflected many different angles on the Mandaeans \u2013 from anthropological perspectives on their current refugee plight to philological considerations about Mandaic magical bowls to mentions of the Mandaeans by Medieval authors writing in Arabic \u2013 I assume others felt as I did, that they all were interesting. It was a wonderful opportunity to make the acquaintance of most of the scholars who work on Mandaeism, as well as a number of Mandaeans who themselves attended the conference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3947530208876797463?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a quick post to say that I\u2019m back from the conference about the Mandaeans in Oxford. It was really excellent. 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