Lady E. S. Drower's Scholarly Correspondence

An Intrepid English Autodidact in Iraq
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-20519-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 137, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Numen Book Series / Texts and Sources in the History of Religions

An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E. S. Drower, famous for her novels, travel accounts, and studies in the Middle East, especially on the Mandaeans. Drower (1879-1972) kept up a lively correspodence with scholars, and the letters here span the years 1938 to the mid-1960s. It presents a window on Near Eastern studies in the mid-20th century, from the viewpoint of an autodidact insisting on-and succeeding in- a place among the academics. Correspondence with many famous scholars and intellectuals are included, such as Cyrus H. Gordon, Rudolf Macuch, Sidney H. Smith, Geoffrey R. Driver, Samuel H. Hooke, and Franz Rosenthall. The letters focus on four of Lady Drower's main books: The Book of the Zodiac (1949), Water into Wine (1956), A Mandaic Dictionary (with Rudolf Macuch, 1963), and Drower's hoped-for, crowning achievement: the presumably lost, large ms.: Mass and Masiqta.

Zielgruppe

Readers interested in Mandaeism, late antiquity religions, intellectual history of Middle Eastern studies in the 20th century; Lady E. S. Drower's life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buckley, Jorunn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Buckley, Jorunn
Jorunn J. Buckley (Ph. D. 1978), a historian of religions, specializing in Gnosticism, especially Mandaeism. An associate professor at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA. Author of books and articles in history of religions. Fieldworker among the Mandaeans., particularly in human rights.

Jorunn J. Buckley (Ph. D. 1978), a historian of religions, specializing in Gnosticism, especially Mandaeism. An associate professor at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA. Author of books and articles in history of religions. Fieldworker among the Mandaeans., particularly in human rights.