Miryai Saga

Miryai is Expelled from Jewry
A Variant of the Above from the Oxford Manuscript

The Exiled Community Settle on the Euphrates

The Jews Persecute the Mandaeans

They Beg Then to Return


Yahi-Yohanna Saga

Portents of John`s Birth

John`s Proclamation concerning himself
and his assumption of the Prophet's mantle


John`s Light-Ship

John the Ascetic

Of Judgement Day

The Letter of Truth

John`s Invulnerability

John and the Baptism of Jesus

John's Marriage

John on His own Passing

John's Birth , Uprising, and First Appearance

John's Answer to Jesus Concerning the Angel of Death



Fisher Saga
The Fisher of Souls Saga

The Light Ship of the Fisher

The Good Fisher Rejects the Overtures
of the Evil Ones and Overwhelms Them


The Final Submission of the Evil Fishers



Good Shepherd Prayers  


THE LOVING SHEPHERDS
OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD


THE GOOD SHEPHERD




Odds and Ends

The Song of the Poor's Exhaltation

Exhortations


In the Beginning


The Treasury of Life
Sidra d-Yahia
Miryai Saga
THE STORY OF THE BREACH
WITH JUDAISM
THE JEWS PERSECUTE THE MANDAEANS   
All the Jews gathered together, the teachers, the great and
the little; they came [togetherl and spake of Miryai:

" She ran away from the priests, fell in lore with a man, and they took hold of each other's bands. Hold of each other's hands they took, went forth and settled at the mouth of Euphrates. We will slay them and make Miryai scorned in Jerusalem. A stake will we set up for the man who has ruined Miryai and led her away. There shall be no day in the world when a stranger enters Jerusalem."

They split open their fellings and catch the doves in Jerusalem.
From the book Gnostic John the Baptiszer: Selections from the
Mandaean John-Book by G.R.S. Mead pages 67