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Montgomery #10, published in J.A. Montgomery, Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur (Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1913), p. 165, and readings corrected by J.N. Epstein, “Gloses babylo-araméennes,” Revue des études juives 73 (1921), p. 40. Translation is that of Reeves, Journal of the American Oriental Society 119 (1999), p. 438.

§11 in the edition provided by Gershom Scholem, Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition, 2nd ed. (New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1965), p. 109; compare the text provided in Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literature, ed.P. Shacfer (Tubingen:J.C.B, Mohr, 1981) 8562.

See Deuteronomy Rabbah 11 (Moses); Tosefta Targum and Rashi to Habakkuk 2:1 (Habakkuk); ShahrastaÆniÆ, KitaÆb al-milal wa-al-ni h\al (ed. Cureton) 168 (Abuµ ‘Iµsaµ Al-Is\fahaµniµ). For Honi the Circle-drawer, see Mishnah Ta’anit 3:8; Talmud b. Ta’anit 23a.

A.E. Crawley, “Magical Circle,” in Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, ed. James Hastings, vol. 8, pp. 321–324; J. Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion (repr. New York: Atheneum, 1974), p. 121; P. Schäfer, “Jewish Magic Literature in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages,” Journal of Jewish Studies 41 (1990), pp. 87–88.

Translation taken from John C. Reeves, Heralds of That Good Realm: Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions NHMS 41 (Leiden: Brill, 1996), pp. 80–81; see also Reeves, “Manichaica Aramaica? Adam and the Magical Deliverance of Seth,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 119 (1999), p. 433.

Hegemonius, Acta Archelai, Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller 16, ed. C.H. Beeson (Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1906). For a discussion of this work’s importance and influence, see S.N.C. Lieu, “Fact and Fiction in the Acta Archelai,” in the same author’s Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East (Leiden: Brill, 1994), pp. 132–152.

Text of the edict available in A. Adam, Texte zum Manichäismus, 2nd ed. (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1969), pp. 82–83.

Quoted by Ephrem Syrus in his Prose Refutations; cited from John C. Reeves, “Manichaean Citations from the Prose Refutations of Ephrem,” in Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources NHMS 43, ed. Paul Mirecki and Jason BeDuhn (Leiden: Brill, 1997), p. 263.

For the testimony of Theodore bar Konai, see H. Pognon, Inscriptions mandaïtes des coupes de Khouabir (Paris, 1898; repr. Amsterdam: Philo Press, 1979), pp. 125–131; Theodore bar Konai, Liber Scholiorum, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, scrip. syri, ser. 2, vol. 66, ed. A. Scher (Paris: Carolus Poussielgue, 1912), pp. 311–318. For that of Ibn al-Nadiµm, see G. Flügel, Mani: Seine Lehre und seine Schriften (Leipzig, 1862; repr. Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag, 1969), pp. 49–80.