The book of the Cave of treasures : a history of the patriarchs and the kings, their successors, from the creation to the crucifixion of Christ / translated from the Syriac text of the British museum ms. Add. 25875, by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge ... With 16 plates and 8 illustrations in the text.
- Date:
- 1927
- Books
About this work
Also known as
Mʻarat gaze. no2007022450
Publication/Creation
London : The Religious Tract Society, 1927.
Physical description
xvi, 319 page, xv plate : frontispiece, illustrations (including facsimiles) ; 22 cm
Notes
"In the Syriac title the composition of the work is attributed to Aprêm Suryâyâ, i.e.; Ephrem Syrus, or Ephraim the Syrian, who ... died in [A.D.] 373, but it is now generally believed that the form in which we now have it is not older than the VIth century"--p. [xi]
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: David Loman
Contents
Introduction: The sources of the "Cave of treasures" and its contents. -- Translation of the Cave of treasures. -- Testamentum Adami. -- Supplementary translations. -- Abraham and the city of Ur. -- The excavations at Ur of the Chaldees.
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Bibliography: p. [291]-294
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