Ginza Rba

The Ginza Rba or Ginza Rabba (Hebrew-script Aramaic Modern Mandaic: גינזא רבא‎ Ginzā Rabbā; literally "The Great Treasury") or Siddra Rabba, "The Great Book" ("rabba", meaning great), and formerly, the Codex Nazaraeus, is the longest of the many holy scriptures of the Mandaean religion. It is also occasionally referred to as The Book of Adam.

Language, dating and authorship

The language used is classical Mandaic, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic written in Mandaic script (Parthian chancellory script), similar to Syriac script. The authorship is unknown, and dating is a matter of debate. Some scholars place it in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD, while others such as S. F. Dunlap place it in the 1st century.

Structure

The Ginza Rba is divided into two parts - the Right Ginza, containing 18 books, and the Left Ginza, containing 3 books.

The book, still mainly hand written, traditionally contains the Right Ginza on one side, and, when turned upside-down and back to front, contains the Left Ginza, this latter also called "The Book of the Dead." The Right Ginza part of the Ginza Rba contains sections dealing with theology, creation, ethics, historical, and mythical narratives; its six colophons reveal that it was last redacted in the early Islamic Era. The Left Ginza section of Ginza Rba deals with man's soul in the afterlife; its colophon reveals that it was redacted for the last time hundreds of years before the Islamic Era.

Ginza

Ginza (銀座) is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi.

It is a popular upscale shopping area of Tokyo, with numerous internationally renowned department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses located in its vicinity. Ginza is recognized by many as one of the most luxurious shopping districts in the world, attracting visitors and regulars alike from across the globe.

History

Ginza was built upon a former swamp that was filled in during the 16th century. The name Ginza comes after the establishment of a silver-coin mint established there in 1612, during the Edo period.

After a devastating fire in 1872 burnt down most of the area, the Meiji government designated the Ginza area as a "model of modernization." The government planned the construction of fireproof brick buildings and larger, better streets connecting Shimbashi Station all the way to the foreign concession in Tsukiji.

Ginza (agency)

Ginza (Ginza) is a designation given to the place that played a buying and selling of casting and silver bullion coin in the middle early modern period of Japan's regime.

Overview

Ginza begin that Toyotomi Hideyoshi Sakai towards the unification of silver coins, is provided with the normal Shi seat (Joze locus) in Osaka attracted Kyoto silver Fukiya 20 people .Others, Kane-ya is moneychangers and silversmith who appeared from the Warring States period (Kaneya) is casting a hallmark silver in various places, Ginza was established from these skilled in the art.For example, was casting the hallmark silver is and early Ryogoku monetary There Edo era Ginza Kanazawa is a silversmith population in Kaga clan.Azuchimomoyama than around age, cupellation silver that is produced in the silver mine of around is now distributed as weighing money, that got to do a hallmark stamped as a guarantee of quality is the beginning of Ginza, as this in many places Ryogoku money has been manufacturing such.Ginza by the Edo Shogunate had the aim to achieve a smooth unified trading variations of such silver grade constant quality.On the other hand reason that around Ginza lasted until the early Edo period, the Keicho silver is due to the fact that did not spread sufficiently to local by such as silver overseas outflow.

Ginza (disambiguation)

Ginza may refer to: