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
Syriac language, Syriac language--Texts, Church history, Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Church history--Primitive and early church, Syriac language, History, PJ5498 .J6 1909, 275
ed., with grammatical, historical and geographical notes in English and German, by Jessie Payne Margoliouth. Main Heritage Compact General PJ5498 .J6... Show moreed., with grammatical, historical and geographical notes in English and German, by Jessie Payne Margoliouth. Main Heritage Compact General PJ5498 .J6 1909 Book Item-ID: i26215172 BIB-ID: 2800352 Show less