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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
Keywords
Mandaic language
naming
Period
Sasanid Empire
Channel
Mandean culture
Text
The Mandaic word for “exorcism” is pišrā, deriving from Babylonian piširtu “act of freeing from a curse”, from pašāru “to undo a curse”. This root also occurs in the Aramaic incantation bowls from the 7th century CE.
Bibliography
Drower 1938, 19 (a note of S. Langdon)
Drower, Ethel Stefana. “S̱ẖafta ḏ Pis̱ẖra ḏ Ainia. A Mandaean Magical Text Translated and Transliterated. Part 2.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1938) 1-20.
Montgomery 1913, 299
Montgomery, James A. Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur. Museum Publications of the Babylonian Section 3. Philadelphia: University Museum 1913.
