TY  - BOOK
AU  - Minov, Sergey
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020//
TI  - Memory and identity in the Syriac "Cave of Treasures": rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran
T3  - Jerusalem studies in religion and culture volume 26
PB  - Brill
PB  - ha-Universịtah ha-ʿIvrit bi-Yerushalayim
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Christian literature, Early
KW  - Syriac authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Syriac literature
AB  - "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"--
SN  - 9789004445512
UR  - https://brill.com/abstract/title/59348
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445512
DO  - 10.1163/9789004445512
LA  - English
N1  - by Sergey Minov
ID  - 1747417653
ER  -