Memory and identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures
rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran
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Author
Contributions
- Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373, supposed author - Contributor
Publication
2021 - Brill, Leiden, Netherlands
Language
English
Word Count
102,750 words, Guess
Page Count
411 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-109004445501
- ISBN-139789004445505
- ISBN-139789004445512
- ISBN-10900444551X
- Library of Congress Control Number2020044644
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number1198558546
- Open LibraryOL44030802M
Classifications
- DDC229/.92
- LCCBX176.3 .M56 2021
Alternate Titles
- Bible. Apocryphal books. Syriac.
Description
"In Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures: Rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran, Sergey Minov examines literary and socio-cultural aspects of the Syriac pseudepigraphic composition known as the Cave of Treasures, which offers a peculiar version of the Christian history of salvation. The book fills a lacuna in the history of Syriac Christian literary creativity by contextualising this unique work within the cultural and religious situation of Sasanian Mesopotamia towards the end of Late Antiquity. The author analyses the Cave's content and message from the perspective of identity theory and memory studies, while discussing its author's emphatically polemical stand vis-à-vis Judaism, the ambivalent way in which he deals with Iranian culture, and the promotion in this work of a distinctively Syriac-oriented vision of the biblical past"--
Subjects
Series Statement
- Jerusalem studies in religion and culture -- volume 26
- Jerusalem studies in religion and culture -- v. 26.
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