Negm bar Zahroon

Negm bar Zahroon
TitleGanzibra
Personal
Born1892
Died1976
ReligionMandaeism
ChildrenRabbi Abdullah bar Negm
CitizenshipIraqi
Known forProcuring and copying Drower Collection manuscripts
Other namesAdam Negm bar Zakia Zihrun
OccupationMandaean priest
RelativesAbdullah Khaffagi (cousin)
Ram Zihrun (grandfather)
Bibia Mudalal (grandmother)
Rafid al-Sabti (grandson)
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Ganzibra Negm bar Zahroon (baptismal name: Adam Negm bar Zakia Zihrun ࡀࡃࡀࡌ ࡍࡉࡂࡌ ࡁࡓ ࡆࡀࡊࡉࡀ ࡆࡉࡄࡓࡅࡍ; Arabic: الشيخ نجم ابن زهرون; born 1892, Huwaiza; died 1976, Qal'at Saleh District) was a Mandaean priest. He is primarily known as E. S. Drower's main field consultant who helped her procure dozens of Mandaic texts, now kept in the Bodleian Library's Drower Collection.[1]: 156 

  1. ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.