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Lady E. S. Drower's Scholarly Correspondence: An Intrepid English Autodidact in Iraq

By Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2012
ISBN
9789004205192, 2011040697, 9789004222472
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1839666 bytes)
Series
Texts and Sources in the History of Religions, Volume: 137
Volume
Texts and Sources in the History of Religions, 137
Pages
\274
Topic
Religion
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-02-03 18:14:33
Ethel Stefena DrowerMandaeanMandaeism

Description

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 correspondence 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, Godfrey R. Driver, Samuel H. Hooke, and Franz Rosenthal. 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 Drowers hoped for, crowning achievement: the presumably lost, large manuscript, Mass and Masiqta.

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