02732nam 22004691 450 991082390830332120230629232324.090-04-44551-X10.1163/9789004445512(CKB)5590000000429482(MiAaPQ)EBC6423276(OCoLC)1198558546(nllekb)BRILL9789004445512(EXLCZ)99559000000042948220201201d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMemory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures Rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran /Sergey MinovLeiden; Boston :BRILL, 2021.1 online resource (xii, 411 pages)Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture ;2690-04-44550-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture ;26.Rewriting the Bible in Sasanian IranChristian literature, EarlySyriac authorsHistory and criticismSyriac literatureHistory and criticismChristian literature, EarlyHistory and criticism.Syriac literatureHistory and criticism.229/.92Minov Sergey886702NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910823908303321Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures3964664UNINA