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| Born | c. 1st century AD Palestine |
Tradition or genre | Mandaeism |
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Miriai or Meryey (Classical Mandaic: ࡌࡉࡓࡉࡀࡉ) was a Mandaean woman mentioned in Mandaean scriptures. Miriai is one of the most important figures in the Mandaean Book of John, which contains detailed stories and speeches of Miriai in chapters 34 and 35. Miriai lived in a Mandaean village in Judea around the first century CE.[1] According to the Mandaean Book of John, she was a contemporary of Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist.[2]
Miriai is also the protaganist in two rahma prayers, numbered 149 and 162 in E. S. Drower's 1959 Canonical Prayerbook[3] (i.e., the Qulasta).[4]
- ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Haberl 2020was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Drower, E. S. (1959). The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
- ^ Gelbert, Carlos; Lofts, Mark J. (2025). The Qulasta. Edensor Park, NSW: Living Water Books. ISBN 978-0-6487954-3-8.