Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

London, The Religious tract society, 1927.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373.
• Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934.

Description

xvi, 319 p. front., illus. (incl. facsims.), xv pl.; 22 cm.

Uniform Title

Bible. Apocryphal books. English. 1927.

Subject

Ur (Extinct city)

Note

• "In the Syriac title the composition of the work is attributed to Ap<h>rêm 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]

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [291]-294.

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.

Call Number

*ODM (Cave of Treasures. Book of the Cave of treasures)

LCCN

28017709

OCLC

4094170

Title

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.

Imprint

London, The Religious tract society, 1927.

Bibliography

Bibliography: p. [291]-294.

Added Author

Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373. Attributed name

Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934.

Added Title

Bible. Apocryphal books. English. 1927.

Research Call Number

*ODM (Cave of Treasures. Book of the Cave of treasures)