WALLIS BUDGE, E. A. [Sir]; The Book of the Cave of Treasures 1927 | 1st Edition

DESCRIPTION AND CONDITION

• Description
• Hardcover | Cloth. Blue with gilt titles to spine. Language: English. Size: 22 cm by 14 cm. Pages: xvi, 319.
• Book Condition
• Good
• Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Toned spine and board margins. Tightly bound with lightly toned clean intact endpapers and strong hinges. Spotting to all pages margins facing and following each plate including the title page. Occasional spots to other pages. Toned text block edges.
• Dust Jacket Condition
• No DJ

NOTES

• Resume
• The Book of the Cave of Treasures (1927) is a seminal translation of a Syriac Apocryphal work, originally composed between the 4th and 7th centuries, that retells biblical history within a distinctly Mesopotamian Christian framework. The narrative spans approximately 5,500 years of human history, tracing the lineage of the Patriarchs and Kings from the Creation of Adam to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It centres on the "Cave of Treasures" near Paradise, where Adam and Eve are said to have dwelled after their expulsion and where Adam deposited the three gifts of the Magi to be retrieved millennia later for the infant Christ. Budge's 1927 Religious Tract Society edition provides the first complete English trade translation from the primary British Museum Syriac manuscript, offering a cornucopia of extra-biblical lore, including the burial of Adam at the "navel of the world" on Golgotha, that was instrumental in shaping the identity and foundation myths of the Syriac Christian Church.
• Author
• Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857–1934) was a preeminent, if controversial, British Egyptologist and Orientalist who served as the Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. Rising from humble, impoverished origins in Cornwall, he taught himself Hebrew and Syriac while working at W.H. Smith & Sons before securing the patronage necessary to study at Cambridge. Throughout his prolific career, Budge conducted numerous archaeological excavations in Egypt, Sudan, and Mesopotamia, acquiring thousands of artifacts for the British Museum, though his aggressive methods, often involving the unauthorized removal of cultural heritage, remain a subject of modern academic debate.

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