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John the Baptist --- Saint --- Drama

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Confraternity of Chapel of St. John the Baptist (North Newington, England).

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Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.

Gnosticism. --- Book of John --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Aramaic. --- John the Baptist. --- Mandaism.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, --- Religion --- Influence --- Christianity and other religions --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Roman. --- John the Baptist, Saint --- Religion. --- Influence. --- Iohannes Baptista

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During the Middle Ages, the head of St John the Baptist was widely venerated. According to the biblical text, John was beheaded at the order of Herod’s stepdaughter, who is traditionally given the name Salome. His head was later found in Jerusalem. Legends concerning the discovery of this relic form the basis of an iconographic type in which the head of St John the Baptist is represented as an “object.” The phenomenon of the Johannesschüssel is the subject of this essay. Little is known about how exactly these objects functioned. How are we to understand this fascination with horror, death and decapitation? What phantasms does the artifact channel? The present study offers the unique key to the Johannesschüssel as artifact, phenomenon, phantasm and medium.

heads [representations] --- Art --- onthoofding van Johannes de Doper --- Religious studies --- relics --- John the Baptist --- John, --- Cult --- Relics --- Academic collection --- 235.3 JOANNES BAPTISTA --- 7.046.3 --- Hagiografie--JOANNES BAPTISTA --- Iconografie: religieuze voorstellingen --- Giovanni Battista, --- Ioann, --- Īoann Predtech, --- Ioannes, --- Iōannēs, --- Jean Baptiste, --- Jean, --- Jehan-Baptiste, --- Johannes, --- Juan, --- Nabī Yaḥyá, --- Yaḥyá ibn Zakarīyā, --- Yūḥannā al-Maʻmadān, --- Joam Baptista, --- Jan Chrzciciel, --- Cult. --- Relics. --- Christian special devotions --- anno 500-1499 --- 7.046.3 Iconografie: religieuze voorstellingen --- Iohannes Baptista --- Iconographie --- John, - the Baptist, Saint - Cult --- John, - the Baptist, Saint - Relics --- John, - the Baptist, Saint