Pišra d-Ainia
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Šafta ḏ-Pišra ḏ-Ainia ({{langx|myz|ࡔࡀࡐࡕࡀ ࡖࡐࡉࡔࡓࡀ ࡖࡀࡉࡍࡉࡀ}}, "Exorcism of the Evil Eyes") is a Mandaean text used to protect against the evil eye.{{cite book|last=Buckley|first=Jorunn Jacobsen|title=The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history|publisher=Gorgias Press|publication-place=Piscataway, N.J|year=2010|isbn=978-1-59333-621-9}}Yamauchi, Edwin M. (1967). Mandaic Incantation Texts. New Haven: American Oriental Society.
Manuscripts
There are at least 4 or 5 extant manuscripts of Pišra ḏ-Ainia.
- Drower Collection (DC) manuscripts held at the Bodleian Library
- DC 21 was copied by Sheikh Faraj (Adam br Iahia br Adam Zihrun) for E. S. Drower in December 1935 and contains 803 lines. It was published by Drower in JRAS No. 4 (Oct. 1937).{{cite journal|last=Drower|first=E. S.|title=S̲h̲afta d̲ Pis̲h̲ra d̲ Ainia|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|issue=4|year=1937|issn=0035-869X|jstor=25201592|pages=589–611|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25201592}} Erica Hunter published an analysis in 2013.{{cite book|first=Erica C. D.|last=Hunter|chapter=Comparative Perspectives on Šapta ḏ-pišra ḏ-ainia|title=Durch Dein Wort ward jegliches Ding!|publisher=Harrassowitz|publication-place=Wiesbaden|year=2013|isbn=978-3-447-06973-1|oclc=856902570|language=de}}
- DC 29 was purchased by Drower from Shaikhs Nejm and Yahia in November 1937. ([https://cal.huc.edu/get_file_info.php?coord=74716 Full transliterated text] from the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon)
- Rbai Rafid Collection (RRC) manuscripts held in Nijmegen, NetherlandsMorgenstern, Matthew. [https://www.academia.edu/35447858/New_Manuscript_Sources_for_the_Study_of_Mandaic New Manuscript Sources for the Study of Mandaic]. In: V. Golinets et. al (eds.), Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Sechstes Treffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 09.–11. Februar 2013 in Heidelberg. AOAT, Ugarit Verlag.
- RRC 1E{{cite web | editor-last=Morgenstern | editor-first=Matthew | website=The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | url=https://cal.huc.edu/get_a_chapter.php?file=74716 | title=Šapta ḏ-Pišra ḏ-Ainia | access-date=2024-07-27}}
- RRC 3K was copied at Shushtar in 1080 A.H. (1669-70 A.D.). It is the oldest surviving Mandaic magical manuscript currently known to international scholars.
- MS Berlin
References
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External links
- [https://cal.huc.edu/get_file_info.php?coord=74716 Full transliterated text] of DC 29 from the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
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