{"id":2509,"date":"2009-02-06T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/02\/update-on-the-mandaeans-february-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T14:51:00","slug":"update-on-the-mandaeans-february-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/02\/update-on-the-mandaeans-february-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Mandaeans, February 2009"},"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>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/forbiddengospels.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/update-on-mandaeans-february-2009.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">April DeConick<\/a> for drawing attention to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/wfcr\/news.newsmain?action=article&amp;ARTICLE_ID=1465170\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">news piece on WFCR<\/a> about the situation of the Mandaeans both in Iraq and in the United States. 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