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245 10 a| Memory and identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasuresh| [electronic resource] :b| rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran /c| by Sergey Minov.;

260 a| Leiden ;a| Boston :b| Brill,c| [2021];

300 a| xii, 411 pages ;c| 25 cm;

490 0 a| Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ;v| volume 26;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-389) and indexes.;

505 0 a| 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.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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

Author/creator	Minov, Sergey
Other author	Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Description	xii, 411 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Mʻarat gaze. Christian literature, Early--Syriac authors. --History and criticism. Syriac literature--History and criticism.

Series	Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; volume 26
Contents	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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-389) and indexes.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
Other title	Bible. Apocryphal books. Syriac.
LCCN	2020044644
ISBN	9789004445505 (hardback)
ISBN	(ebook)

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