{"id":27039,"date":"2014-11-05T14:45:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=27039"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:45:05","slug":"lexidion-codicis-nasaraei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/11\/lexidion-codicis-nasaraei.html","title":{"rendered":"Lexidion Codicis Nasaraei"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27038\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/11\/wpid-Photo-20141105124502.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-Photo-20141105124502.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\"><\/div>\n<p>I had the privilege of visiting the rare books room at Christian Theological Seminary yesterday. One item that caught my eye is the one I took a photo of above, Matthias Norberg\u2019s <em>Lexidion Codicis Nasaraei<\/em>. It is a dictionary of the words in the Ginza Rba (Great Treasure), the principal sacred text of the Mandaeans. The Mandaic words are rendered in the Serto (Syriac) script, and then translations are provided in Latin.<\/p>\n<p>As with many out-of-print and out-of-copyright books, there are nowadays many ways to get a copy. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Matthias_Norberg_Lexidion_codicis_Nasaraei_cui_lib?id=C7pCAAAAYAAJ&amp;hl=en\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">read it<\/a> for free on <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Matthias_Norberg_Lexidion_Codicis_Nasaraei?id=P-9pcyF3uAkC\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Google Books<\/a>. 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