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unknown author (incorrectly ascribed to Ephrem). Parts of the Cave of Treasures were known to authors from
A (78) the 6th cent. on. Internal evidence suggests that it was not composed before the 5th cent. (Leonhard; Ri
assumes an earlier date). The ‘Cave of Treasures’ was written in Syriac, translated into Georgian and Resources related to Cave of Treasures
B (57) reworked in other languages. Its title refers to a legendary cave which is located near Paradise and which
serves as the home as well as the place of burial and worship for the generations before the flood. For the Resources related to 1 other topics in this
time after the flood, the interest of the narrator shifts to Adam’s (secondary) burial place in Golgotha being article.
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the ‘center of the world’ (39.6–8) and the location of the important events of biblical history. The cave near Show Other Resources
Cardahi, Gabriel Paradise is not mentioned any more. The text presents itself as esoteric lore and the only true background
against which the Bible can be understood (43.13–4). It uses apocryphal traditions (e.g., the traditions on
Catherine, Monastery of St. Adam and Eve) but also rewrites and expounds biblical texts and motifs. The ‘Cave of Treasures’ reconstructs
the history of the OT by omitting the parts that are of paramount importance for Judaism, e.g., the time of
Catholicos see Maphrian Moses. The remarks on the Syriac language (24.11, 53.22–7) may betray the author’s interest in creating a
distinctively Syriac version of biblical history.
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Primary Sources
Cave of Treasures
E. A. W. Budge, The book of the Cave of Treasures (1927). (ET according to ms. London, Brit. Libr. Add.
Ceriani, Antonio Maria 25,875 ff. 3b–50b)

Chabot, Jean-Baptiste J.-P.  Mahé, La Caverne des Trésors (CSCO 527; 1992). (FT of the Georgian version)

Chaldean Catholic Church
Chaldean Syrian Church
Chaldeans
Chicago
China, Syriac Christianity in
Christian Palestinian Aramaic
Chronicle of 1234
A. S.-M.  Ri, La Caverne des trésors (CSCO 486–87; 1987). (Syr. edition according to 19 E.- and W.-Syr.
mss. arranged as two recensions with FT)
Secondary Sources
C.  Leonhard, ‘Observations on the Date of the Syriac Cave of Treasures’, in The World of the Aramaeans, ed.
P. M. M.  Daviau et al., vol. 3 (JSOT Supplement Series 326; 2001), 255–93.
C.  Leonhard, ‘Die Beschneidung Christi in der syrischen Schatzhöhle. Beobachtungen zu Datierung und
Überlieferung des Werks’, in Syriaca II. Beiträge zum 3. deutschen Syrologen-Symposium in
Vierzehnheiligen 2002, ed. M. Tamcke (SOK 33; 2004), 11–28.
A. S.-M.  Ri, Commentaire de la Caverne des trésors (CSCO 581; 2000).

Chronicle of Edessa S. Ruzer, ‘The Cave of Treasures on Swearing by Abel’s Blood and Expulsion from Paradise’, JECS 9
(2001), 251–71.
Chronicles, Syriac
A.  Toepel, Die Adam- und Seth-Legenden im syrischen “Buch der Schatzhöhle” (CSCO 618, 2006).
Church of the East
P.  Wood, ‘Syrian identity in the Cave of Treasures’, Harp 22 (2007), 131–40.
Çiçek, Julius Yeshu
Clemens Leonhard
Clement of Rome and Pseudo-Clementine
literature

Colophons
How to Cite This Entry
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Coptic Christianity, Syriac contacts with Clemens Leonhard, “Cave of Treasures,” in Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage:
Electronic Edition, edited by Sebastian P. Brock, Aaron M. Butts, George A. Kiraz and Lucas Van
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Crusades

Cureton, William

Cyril of Alexandria

Cyril of Jerusalem

Cyrillona see Qurillona

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