Lady E.S. Drower's scholarly correspondence : : an intrepid English autodidact in Iraq / / edited by Jorunn J. Buckley.

• Superior document: Numen book series : studies in the history of religions, v. 137
• Author: Drower, E. S. Lady, b. 1879.
• TeilnehmendeR: Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; 137.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E. S. Drower, famous for her novels, travel accounts, and studies in the Middle East, especially on the Mandaeans. Drower (1879‐1972) kept up a lively correspondence with scholars, and the letters here span the years 1938 to the mid 1960's. It presents a window on Near Eastern studies in the mid 20th century, from the viewpoint of an autodidact insisting on, and succeeding in, a place among the academics.. Correspondence with many famous scholars and intellectuals are included, such as Cyrus H. Gordon, Rudolf Macuch, Sidney H. Smith, Godfrey R. Driver, Samuel H. Hooke, and Franz Rosenthal. The letters focus on four of Lady Drower's main books: The Book of the Zodiac (1949), Water into Wine (1956), A Mandaic Dictionary (with Rudolf Macuch, 1963), and Drowers hoped for, crowning achievement: the presumably lost, large manuscript, Mass and Masiqta .

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Sfar Malwašia (= SM) -- 2 Water into Wine (= WW) -- 3 A Mandaic Dictionary -- 4 The Early 1960's: A Controversial Book, A Spat, and A Prize -- 5 Mass and Masiqta (= MM): “From the Tigris to the Tiber” -- Epilogue -- E. S. Drower Bibliography: Works Relevant to Mandaeism -- Index of Names.