Public domain 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, KT.
M.A., LITT.D. (CAMBRIDGE), M.A., D.LITT. (OXFORD),
D.LIT. (DURHAM), F.S.A.
SOMETIME KEEPER OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES, BRITISH MUSEUM; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, LISBON; AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
With 16 plates and 8 illustrations in the text
LONDON
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
MANCHESTER, MADRID, LISBON, BUDAPEST
1927
TRANSLATION
THE TITLE OF THE WORK: THE SCRIBES PRAYER.
(Fol. 3b, col. I.) By the might of our Lord Jesus Christ we begin to write the " Book of the Succession of the Generations," that is to say, ME'ÂRATH GAZZĘ, which was composed by SAINT MÂR APHREM (i.e. Ephraim, commonly known as "Ephraim Syrus," or "Ephraim the Syrian,'' who died A.D. 373). 0 our Lord, help Thou me in Thy Mercy. Amen.
Source
Preface
Introduction
The Book of the Cave of Treasures:
The First Thousand Years
The Second Thousand Years
The Third Thousand Years
The Fourth Thousand Years
The Fifth Thousand Years
The Five Hundred Years from the Second Year of Cyrus to the Birth of Christ
Testamentum Adami
Supplementary Translations from the "Book of the Bee."
Abraham and the City of Ur
