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The Gathering of the Manna by James Tissot. Manna (Hebrew: מָן, romanized: mān, Greek: μάννα; Arabic: اَلْمَنُّ), sometimes or archaically spelled mana, is described in the Bible and the Quran as an edible substance that God bestowed upon the Israelites while they were wandering the desert during the 40-year period that followed the Exodus and preceded the conquest of Canaan.
Mana (Oceanian cultures), the spiritual life force energy or healing power that permeates the universe in Melanesian and Polynesian mythology; Mana (food), archaic name for manna, an edible substance mentioned in the Bible and Quran; Mana (Mandaeism), a term roughly equivalent to the philosophical concept of 'nous'
I am a mana of the Great Life (mana ana ḏ-hiia rbia) "I am a mana of the Great Life" ( mana ana ḏ-hiia rbia ) is also frequently used in the Mandaean Book of John . [ 8 ] In Psalm 5 of the Manichaean Psalms of Thomas , the phrase "treasure of life" is derived from the aforementioned Mandaean formula according to Torgny Säve-Söderbergh . [ 9 ]
The Assyrians usually called Manna the "land of the Mannites", [2] Manash, [3] while the Urartians called it the land of Manna. [4] Describing the march of Salmanasar III in the 16th year (843 BC), it was reported that the king reached the land of Munna, occupying the interior of Zamua. However, the chronicle does not mention any march or ...
The Bible [a] is a collection of religious texts and scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, and partly in Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The texts ...
On the basis of cognates in other Aramaic dialects, Semiticists such as Mark Lidzbarski and Rudolf Macúch have translated the term manda as "knowledge" (cf. Imperial Aramaic: מַנְדַּע mandaʻ in Dan. 2:21, 4:31, 33, 5:12; cf. Hebrew: מַדַּע maddaʻ, with characteristic assimilation of /n/ to the following consonant, medial -nd-, hence becoming -dd-[4]).
Other names used are Mare d'Rabuta ('Lord of Greatness'), Mana Rabba ('The Great Mind'), Malka d-Nhura ('King of Light') and Hayyi Qadmaiyi ('The First Life'). [ 38 ] [ 50 ] Mandaeans recognize God to be the eternal, creator of all, the one and only in domination who has no partner.
Ginza Rabba. Right Ginza; Left Ginza; Mandaean Book of John; Qulasta (); Haran Gawaita; The Wedding of the Great Shishlam; The Baptism of Hibil Ziwa; Diwan Abatur