TY - BOOK ID - 85720341 TI - Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures : Rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran PY - 2021 SN - 900444551X 9004445501 9789004445505 9789004445512 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL, DB - UniCat KW - Syriac literature KW - Christian literature, Early KW - History and criticism. KW - Syriac authors KW - Early Christian literature KW - Patristic literature KW - Mʻarat gaze. KW - Maʻarrath gazzē KW - Spelunca thesaurorum KW - Cave of treasures KW - Book of the cave of treasures KW - Buch der Schatzhöhle UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85720341 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. ER -