The book of the Cave of treasures
Subtitle: a history of the patriarchs and the kings, their successors, from the creation to the crucifixion of Christ
By: translated from the Syriac text of the British museum ms. Add. 25875, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge.
Contributors: Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373; Budge, E. A. Wallis Sir, 1857-1934
Publisher: The Religious Tract Society
Published: 1927
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Ur (Extinct city)
Other titles: Apocryphal books (New Testament). English. 1927.
Work titles: Maarrath gazze.
Notes: "In the Syriac title the composition of the work is attributed to Ap<h>rêm 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."--p. [xi]

Bibliography: p. [291]-294.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The sources of the "Cave of treasures" and its contents; title: Translation of the Cave of treasures; title: Testamentum Adami; title: Supplementary translations; title: Abraham and the city of Ur; title: The excavations at Ur of the Chaldees.