The Wedding of the Great Šišlam

Short description: Mandaean text

The Wedding of the Great Šišlam
Šarḥ ḏ-qabin ḏ-Šišlam Rabbā

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Religion| Mandaeism
Language| Mandaic language

The Wedding of the Great Šišlam (Classical Mandaic: Šarḥ ḏ-qabin ḏ-Šišlam Rabbā) is a Mandaean religious text. As a liturgical rather than esoteric text, it contains instructions and hymns for the Mandaean marriage ceremony. Traditionally, Mandaean priests recite the entire book at Mandaean marriage ceremonies. The hymns often contain the refrain "When the proven, the Pure One Went." Unlike most other Mandaean ritual scrolls, The Wedding of the Great Šišlam is not illustrated.[1]

Copies of the text include Manuscript 38 of the Drower Collection (DC 38), currently held at the Bodleian Library. An English translation and commentary was published in 1953 by E. S. Drower.[2]

## References

1. ↑ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
2. ↑ Drower, E. S. 1950. Šarḥ ḏ qabin ḏ šišlam rba (D. C. 38). Explanatory Commentary on the Marriage Ceremony of the great Šišlam. Rome: Ponteficio Istituto Biblico. (text transliterated and translated)

## External links

* Full text at Archive.org

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