Diwan ḏ-Qadaha Rba Šuma ḏ-Mara ḏ-Rabuta u-Dmut Kušṭa (; "The Scroll of the Great Prayer, the Name of the Lord of Greatness and the Image of Truth"), or simply Dmut Kušṭa (or Dmuth Kushta), is a Mandaean religious text. It is written as an illustrated scroll. No published translation of the text currently exists.
It is also known as Tafsir Rba ḏ-Dmut Kušṭa ("The Great Explanation/Tafsir of the Image of Truth").Morgenstern, Matthew (2013). New Manuscript Sources for the Study of Mandaic. In: V. Golinets et al. (eds.), Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Sechstes Treffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 09.–11. Februar 2013 in Heidelberg. AOAT, Ugarit Verlag.
Manuscripts The Bodleian Library at Oxford University holds a manuscript of the text, catalogued as MS Asiat. Misc. C 12. The scroll was copied by Yahia Ram Zihrun, son of Mhatam in 1818 in Qurna. It was acquired by E. S. Drower in 1954.
Manuscripts of Tafsir Rba ḏ-Dmut Kušṭa from the Rbai Rafid Collection (RRC), held by Rbai Rafid al-Sabti in Nijmegen, Netherlands, are: RRC 2V: Copied in 1240 A.H. (1824-5 A.D.). RRC 2X: Copied in 1204 A.H. (1789-90 A.D.).
In 1969, Kurt Rudolph had also seen a copy of the text at a private library in Dora, Baghdad.Rudolph, Kurt (1975). "Quellenprobleme zur Ursprung und Alter der Mandäer." In Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, edited by Jacob Neusner, vol. 4: Studies for Morton Smith at Sixty, 112–42. Leiden: Brill. Reprinted in Gnosis und Spätantike Religionsgeschichte, 402–32. In p. 166 n. 39.
In 2002, a published version of Dmut Kušṭa in typeset Mandaic script has been published by Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki, a Mandaean living in Australia.
Illustrations MS Asiat. Misc. C 12 contains illustrations of various heavenly trees, which are named after (or identified with) uthras.
Abatur Rama, as a date palm Habšaba, as a fig tree Yawar Ziwa, as a great cotton plant Yushamin, as a mulberry tree
References
Bibliography Nasoraia, Brikha (2022). A Critical Edition, with Translation and Analytical Study of Diwan Qadaha Rba D-Dmuth Kusta (The Scroll of Great Creation of the Image/Likeness of Truth) (forthcoming). Belgium: Brepols Publishers. Nasoraia, Brikha (2022). The Esoteric and Mystical Concepts of the Mandaean Nasoraean Illustrated Scroll: Diwan Qadaha Rba D-dmuth Kusta (the Scroll of the Great Creation of the Image/likeness of Truth) (forthcoming). Belgium: Brepols Publishers.
Nasoraia, Brikha (2010). The Esoteric and Mystical Concepts of the Mandaean Nasoraean Illustrated Scroll: Diwan Qadaha Rba D-dmuth Kusta (the Scroll of the Great Creation of the Image/likeness of Truth). Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney.
External links Diwan Dmuth Kushta (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network) Diwan Dmuth Kushta (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network)