ISBN:
9789004445505
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 411 Seiten
Year of publication:
2021
Series Statement:
Jerusalem studies in religion and culture volume 26
Series Statement:
Jerusalem studies in religion and culture
Uniform Title:
Bible Apocryphal books
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Minov, Sergey Memory and identity in the Syriac "Cave of Treasures"
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2013
DDC:
229/.92
Keywords:
Mʻarat gaze
;
Christian literature, Early Syriac authors
;
History and criticism
;
Syriac literature History and criticism
;
Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
Introduction -- 1. Genre, date and provenance of CT -- 2. Categorizing the Jewish "Other" -- 3. Categorizing the Iranian "Other" -- 4. Identifying the Syriac Christian "Self" -- General conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Names and Subjects.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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