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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minov, Sergey, author.

Series:

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; Volume 26.

Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture ; Volume 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Syriac literature--History and criticism.

Syriac literature.

Christian literature, Early--Syriac authors--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Early.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 411 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-44551-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004445512 DOI