Introduction: The sources of the "Cave of treasures" and its contents. -- Translation of the Cave of treasures. -- Testamentum Adami. --... Show moreIntroduction: 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. 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. "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."--Page [xi]. Main Heritage Compact General BS559 .M33 1927 Book Item-ID: i25847946 BIB-ID: 2746328 Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294). Show less
by A.E.K. Main Heritage Shelves General BS546 .P53 1889 Book Item-ID: i15802772 BIB-ID: 2518551 Show moreby A.E.K. Main Heritage Shelves General BS546 .P53 1889 Book Item-ID: i15802772 BIB-ID: 2518551 Show less