entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note ENT_MAN_JOHN_BAPTIST,SRC_DROWER_MANDAEANS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Drower, The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran." ENT_MAN_JOHN_BAPTIST,SRC_GINZA_RBA,direct attestation,Named in the Ginza Rba. ENT_MAN_JOHN_BAPTIST,SRC_MANDAEAN_BOOK_JOHN,direct attestation,"The Book of John (Draşa d-Yahya = ""Teaching of John"") is named for and centrally concerned with John the Baptist as a Mandaean prophet; it contains dialogues, hymns, and narratives in which John receives divine knowledge and instructs the Mandaean community; the primary Mandaean text for the John tradition"