id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-16225	Toepel, Alexander	Late Paganism as Witnessed by the Syriac Cave of Treasures	2019	22	.pdf	application/pdf	8557	346	59	The coherent use of chronology and the fact that so far no independent source-texts outside of CT have been identified strongly suggest that the text in its entirety goes back to the seventh-century author instead of being an assemblage of earlier unrelated works.5 Whatever its sources may have been, the book had a long afterlife in both Christian and Muslim authors, mostly historians and polymaths such as Ps.-Dionysius of Tell-Mahre (late eighth century), al-Jaqubi (late ninth cen- tury), Tabari and Eutychius of Alexandria (both ninth/tenth century), Michael the Syrian (late twelfth century), Barhebraeus and Solomon of Basra (both thirteenth century).6 In spite of this, the Syriac Book of the Cave of Treasures (henceforth CT ), a Christian apocryphal work of the late sixth or early seventh century written on Persian ground, bears witness to an apparently still vibrant practice of 1 Cf.	cache/grbs-16225.pdf	txt/grbs-16225.txt