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The Thousand and Twelve Questions (Classical Mandaic: ࡀࡋࡐ ࡕࡓࡉࡎࡀࡓ ࡔࡅࡉࡀࡋࡉࡀ Alf Trisar Šuialia; Modern Mandaic: Alf Tressar Ešyāli[1]) is a Mandaean religious text. The 1012 Questions is one of the most detailed texts on Mandaean priestly rituals.[2] It is kept by Mandaean priests in the shkinta during certain rituals.[3]
The text contains detailed commentaries on Mandaean religious rituals, such as death masses (masiqta) to help guide souls into the World of Light, and the Mandaean wedding ceremony. It is written as a scroll.[2] A detailed overview of the contents can be found in Drower (1941).[4]
- ^ Häberl, Charles (2022). The Book of Kings and the Explanations of This World: A Universal History from the Late Sasanian Empire. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-80085-627-1.
- ^ a b Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
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Buckley 2016was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Drower, E. S. (1941). "The Alf Trisar Šuialia". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2). Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland: 101–126. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00093424. ISSN 0035-869X. JSTOR 25221732. S2CID 162482018.