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To: malakhi
I've read of them, though I had always heard them refered to as just "modern day follower of John the Baptist".

I can't imagine there are too many of them in Iraq today. Kinda like that small Jewism community in Baghdad that stretched back to the Babylonian captivity. I think the report talked about 2-3 dozen survivors with one in her 30's, but most unlikely to survive the next several years.

47,827 posted on 04/21/2003 1:11:08 PM PDT by IMRight (This space available - Refer all requests to 1-888-TAG-LINE - Managed by Malakhi advertising Inc.)
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To: IMRight
I can't imagine there are too many of them in Iraq today.

According to what I was able to glean from some Mandaean web sites, they number around 50,000 total. Which is more, for example, than the total number of Karaite Jews worldwide (around 30,000).

47,843 posted on 04/21/2003 1:45:52 PM PDT by malakhi (fundamentalist unitarian)
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