ISBN:
9789004445512
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 411 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Jerusalem studies in religion and culture volume 26
Series Statement:
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441309
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Minov, Sergey Memory and identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2013
Keywords:
Christian literature, Early History and criticism
;
Syriac literature History and criticism
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Syrisch
;
Apokryphen
;
Spätantike
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"--
DOI:
10.1163/9789004445512
URL:
URL des Erstveröffentlichers
