Memory and identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures: rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran

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 Subje...

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主要作者: Minov, Sergey (Author)
其他作者: Ephraem, Syrus 306-373 (Other)
格式: Print 图书
语言:English
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出版: Leiden Boston Brill [2021]
In: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture (volume 26)
Year: 2021
丛编:Jerusalem studies in religion and culture volume 26
Further subjects:B Syriac Literature History and criticism
B 学位论文
B Mʻarat gaze
B Christian literature, Early Syriac authors History and criticism
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总结: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.
"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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004445501