Memory and identity in the Syriac "Cave of Treasures" : rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran / by Sergey Minov

Englisch

Leiden ; Boston : Brill [[2020]], [2020]

© 2021

1 Online-Ressource (XII, 411 Seiten)

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Minov, Sergey: Memory and identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures. - Leiden : Brill, 2021. - pages cm

Dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013, überarbeitete Fassung

978-90-04-44551-2 : (Online)

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-04-44550-5 (Druckausgabe)

DOI: 10.1163/9789004445512

*Syrisch / Apokryphen / Spätantike

*Christian literature, Early -- Syriac authors -- History and criticism ; Syriac literature -- History and criticism

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BX176.3

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 229/.92

Book Industry Communication: HRAX

bisacsh: REL 033000

"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"--

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