Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures : Rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Genre, Date, and Provenance of CT -- 1 Content and Genre -- 2 The State of the Text -- 2.1 Direct Textual Witnesses -- 2.2 Indirect Textual Witnesses -- 2.3 The "Original" Text of CT -- 3 Date of CT -- 3.1 Terminus ante quem -- 3.2 Terminus post quem -- 4 Milieu of CT -- 5 Concluding Observations -- Chapter 2 Categorizing the Jewish "Other" -- 1 The Jewish Background of CT -- 2 Apologetics: The Genealogy of the Virgin Mary -- 3 Polemic: Anti-Judaism and the Passion Narrative -- 3.1 Jews as the Killers of Christ -- 3.2 Demonization of the Jews -- 3.3 Anti-Jewish Revision of the Canonical Passion Narrative -- 3.4 The Jews and the Instruments of Jesus' Execution -- 3.5 The Sponge-Bearers as Jews -- 4 Polemic: Supersessionism -- 4.1 Rhetoric of Supersessionism -- 4.2 Supersessionist Exegesis of the Old Testament -- 4.3 Supersessionist Revision of Biblical History -- 5 Concluding Observations -- Chapter 3 Categorizing the Iranian "Other" -- 1 The Customs and Beliefs of the "Persians" -- 1.1 The Cult of Fire -- 1.2 The Cult of the Horse -- 1.3 Close-Kin Marriage -- 1.4 Astrology -- 2 Iranian Kingship -- 2.1 Nimrod -- 2.2 Cyrus -- 2.3 The Magi -- 3 Concluding Observations -- Chapter 4 Identifying the Syriac Christian "Self" -- 1 The Ethnonym "Syrians" -- 1.1 Territorial Aspects of Suryāyā -- 1.2 Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Suryāyā -- 1.3 The Confessional Aspect of Suryāyā -- 2 Syriac Primacy: The Language -- 3 Syriac Primacy: The People -- 4 The Figure of Abgar -- 5 Attribution to Ephrem -- 6 Concluding Observations -- General Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Scriptural References -- Index of Ancient Sources.

In Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures, Sergey Minov analyses the role played by the pseudepigraphic work known as the Cave of Treasures in the formation of cultural memory and collective identity among Syriac Christians of Iran during Late Antiquity.

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