Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
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Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley's Degrees
- PhD Religious Studies University of Chicago
- Masters Religious Studies University of Chicago
- Bachelors Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley is an American religious studies scholar and historian of religion known for her work on Mandaeism and Gnosticism. She was a former Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College. She is known for translating the Scroll of Exalted Kingship and other Mandaean texts, as well as for her various books on the Mandaean religion and people.
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Published Works
- The HarperCollins dictionary of religion (1995) (56)
- Tools and Tasks: Elchasaite and Manichaean Purification Rituals (1986) (33)
- The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern People (2002) (23)
- Female Fault and Fulfilment in Gnosticism (1986) (15)
- Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic LiteratureBy Annette Yoshiko Reed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+318. $75.00. (2008) (12)
- A Cult-Mystery in The Gospel of Philip (1980) (11)
- Libertines or Not: Fruit, Bread, Semen and Other Body Fluids in Gnosticism (2009) (9)
- An Interpretation of Logion 114 in the Gospel of Thomas (1985) (7)
- Glimpses of a Life: Yahia Bihram, Mandaean Priest (1999) (7)
- Two Female Gnostic Revealers (1980) (5)
- The Nizari isma'ilites' Abolishment of the shari'a during the "Great Resurrection" of 1164 A.D./559 A.H. (1984) (5)
- The Mandaean Tabahata Masiqta (1981) (5)
- Sacramental Language and Verbs of Generating, Creating, and Begetting in the Gospel of Philip (1997) (4)
- Polemics and Exorcism in Mandaean Baptism (2007) (3)
- Women and the Ideal Society: Plato's "Republic" and Modern Myths of Gender. Natalie Harris BluestonePandora's Daughters: The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Eva Cantarella , Maureen B. Fant (1989) (3)
- The Great Stem of Souls: Reconstructing Mandaean History (2010) (3)
- Conceptual Models and Polemical Issues in the Gospel of Philip (1988) (3)
- The Evidence for Women Priests in Mandaeism (2000) (3)
- Conversion and Other VIIIth Century Community Issues in Mandaeism (2008) (2)
- Why Once Is Not Enough: Mandaean Baptism (Maṣbuta) as an Example of a Repeated Ritual (1989) (2)
- The Mandaean Appropriation of Jesus' Mother, Miriai (1993) (2)
- Drower's Folk-Tales of Iraq (2007) (2)
- Lady E. S. Drower's Scholarly Correspondence: An Intrepid English Autodidact in Iraq (2012) (2)
- The Colophons in the Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans (1992) (2)
- The Colophons in H. Petermann's Sidra Rabba (1995) (2)
- God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars. By Benjamin Lazier. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+254. (2012) (1)
- Visible Religion. Annual for Religious Iconography. Vol. II: Representations of Gods (1987) (1)
- The Scroll of Exalted Kingship: Diwan Malkuta ʿLaita (Mandean Manuscript No. 34 in the Drower Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford)@@@The Scroll of Exalted Kingship: Diwan Malkuta Laita (Mandean Manuscript No. 34 in the Drower Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford) (1995) (1)
- Book Review:Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women Page duBois (1989) (1)
- Nizari ismailites abolishment of the sharia during the "Great Resurrection" (1984) (1)
- 12. Juj And Majuj (Gog And Magog) (2007) (1)
- The Making of a Mandaean Priest: the Tarmida Initiation (1985) (1)
- Response: Anthropology, History of Religions, and a Cognitive Approach to Religious Phenomena (1995) (1)
- A Rehabilitation of Spirit Ruha in Mandaean Religion (1982) (1)
- Transcendence and Sexuality in "The Book Baruch" (1985) (1)
- The Mandaean Šitil as an Example of "the Image Above and Below" (1979) (0)
- R. M. M Tuschling, .Angels and Orthodoxy: A Study in Their Development in Syria and Palestine from the Qumran Texts to Ephrem the Syrian. Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 40. Tübingen: Siebeck, 2007. xi+271 pp. $95.00 (paper). (2010) (0)
- The Initiation of the Tarmida (2002) (0)
- Thousands of Names, Hundreds of Lineages (2002) (0)
- The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (review) (2006) (0)
- Cook, John Granger.Roman Attitudes toward the Christians: From Claudius to Hadrian. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 261. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. xv+363 pp. €49.00 (paper). (2012) (0)
- Mandaean Language Games and Obstacles (2002) (0)
- An Inscribed Mandaean Body (2002) (0)
- Book Review:Triumph over Evil: Purity and Pollution in Zoroastrianism Jamsheed K. Choksy (1991) (0)
- Ritual Ingenuity in the Mandaean Scroll of Exalted Kingship (2013) (0)
- Mandaeans in the USA Today (1995) (0)
- Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism. Edited by April D. DeConick (2007) (0)
- Mani’s Pictures: The Didactic Images of the Manichaeans from Sasanian Mesopotamia to Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China. By Zsuzsanna Gulácsi. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. 535+xix, 6 figures and 7 plates. $240.00 (cloth); €185.00 (cloth). (2018) (0)
- Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism (review) (2008) (0)
- Book Review:Expectation and Experience: Explaining Religious Conversion Eugene V. Gallagher (1992) (0)
- Comparison, Interpretation, and Politics (2019) (0)
- Book reviews (2003) (0)
- From Iraq to California (2002) (0)
- To the River (2002) (0)
- Consultation On History, Method, and Theory in the Study of Religion (2001) (0)
- Text by Massoud Fourouzandeh and Alain Brunet. Photos by Abbas Tahvildar. Baptists of Iran. Les baptistes d'Iran. Tehran, Key Press, 2001, 173 pp. (with 5 pages in Farsi), n.p. ISBN 964 90645 5 9. (2003) (0)
- PART 2: PRIESTS AND SCHOLARS (2010) (0)
- Book Review:The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society Carol Delaney (1994) (0)
- Review: Spirituality in the Land of the Noble: How Iran Shaped the World’s Religions. (2005) (0)
- XLI. The Cotton-carder and Kasilūn (2007) (0)
- Mandaean Book of John: Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary. Edited by Charles G. Häberl and James F. McGrath (2022) (0)
- The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual. By Jason David BeDuhn. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+354, 10 plates. $42.50. (2003) (0)
- Book Review:The Origin of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World David Ulansey (1991) (0)
- Book Review:Things Unutterable: Paul's Ascent to Paradise in Its Greco-Roman, Judaic, and Early Christian Contexts James D. Tabor (1987) (0)
- Review: What is Gnosticism? (2004) (0)
- Book Review:Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category Michael Allen Williams (2000) (0)
- Review: The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics (2003) (0)
- The use of colophons and scribal postscripts in envisioning Manadean history (1999) (0)
- The Ducks That Came to the Marshes (2002) (0)
- An Inscribed Mandaen Body (2002) (0)
- The Ṭabahata Masiqta (2002) (0)
- The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously. By Jacques Berlinerblau. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 217 pages. $55.00. (2006) (0)
- Interpretive Strategies in The Scroll of Exalted Kingship (2002) (0)
- Books recieved (1962) (0)
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