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===Mandaeism=== {{Main|Mandaeans#Origin|Zidqa}} An early self-appellation for [[Mandaeans]] is {{transliteration|myz|bhiri zidqa}} meaning 'elect of righteousness' or 'the chosen righteous', a term found in the [[Book of Enoch]] and [[Genesis Apocryphon]] II, 4.<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite journal|last=Rudolph|first=Kurt|title=War Der Verfasser Der Oden Salomos Ein "Qumran-Christ"? Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion um die Anfänge der Gnosis|journal=Revue de Qumrân|date=April 1964|volume=4|number=16|pages=552–553|publisher=Peeters}} |2={{cite journal|last=Coughenour|first=Robert A.|title=The Wisdom Stance of Enoch's Redactor|publisher=Brill|page=52|journal=Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period|volume=13|number=1–2|date=December 1982|doi=10.1163/157006382X00035 }} |3={{cite web|last=Rudolph|first=Kurt|url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/mandaeans-2-religion |title=Mandeans ii. The Mandean Religion |access-date=3 January 2022|website=Encyclopaedia Iranica|date=7 April 2008}} |4={{cite thesis|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1444088/|last=Aldihisi|first=Sabah|year=2008|title=The story of creation in the Mandaean holy book in the Ginza Rba|type=PhD|publisher=University College London|page=18}} }}</ref> In addition to righteousness, {{transliteration|myz|[[zidqa]]}} also refers to [[alms]] or [[almsgiving]].<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite book |last1=Gelbert |first1=Carlos |title=Ginza Rba |year=2011 |publisher=Living Water Books |location=Sydney |isbn=978-0958034630}} |2={{cite book|last=Drower|first=Ethel Stefana|year=1937|title=The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran|location=Oxford|publisher=The Clarendon Press}} }}</ref>
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