Haran Gawaita
The Haran Gawaita (Mandaic ࡄࡀࡓࡀࡍ ࡂࡀࡅࡀࡉࡕࡀ "Inner Harran" or "Inner Hauran") also known as the Scroll of Great Revelation, is a Mandaean text which recounts the history of the Mandaeans and their arrival in Media as Nasoraeans from Jerusalem. Text, dating and authorship. The text is in the Mandaic language and script, and is dated to around the 4th6th centuries. It is of unknown authorship. Content. According to the Haran Gawaita, John the Baptist was baptized, initiated, and educated by the patron of the "Nasirutha" (secret knowledge), Enosh (Anush or Anush-ʼuthra), the hierophant of the sect. This research  was conducted by the Oxford scholar and specialist on the Nasoraeans, Lady Ethel S. Drower. According to Jorunn J. Buckley, the Mandaeans see themselves to be former Judeans based in Jerusalem and they loved Adonai until the birth of Jesus. These Nasoraean disciples of John the Baptist are aware of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 CE, but they did not leave because of this. They left before 70 CE due to persecution by a faction of more normative or Orthodox Jews. With the help of the Parthian king Artabanus II (Ardban II; previously known as Ardban  III), who ruled from 11-38 CE, the Mandaeans settled in Media, and later moved to southern Babylonia. Manuscripts and translations. An English translation of the Haran Gawaita and the Diwan Masbuta d Hibil Ziwa was published in 1953 by Lady E. S. Drower, which was based on manuscripts 9 and 36 of the Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 9 and DC 36, respectively). A German translation, which makes use of Drower's manuscripts as well as two additional privately held manuscripts, was published in 2020 by Bogdan Burtea. Buckley has also located a privately held copy of the "Haran Gawaita  dating from 1930 in Flushing, New York.