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subject	book bibliographic info
cave	Beck (2006) 16, 17, 41, 42, 43, 44, 62, 85, 86, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 222 Bednarek (2021) 36, 49, 50, 51 Bernabe et al (2013) 62, 111, 114, 120, 139, 154, 155, 210, 211, 222, 274, 283, 284, 291, 386 Corrigan and Rasimus (2013) 505, 582, 583, 584, 586, 587, 588, 589, 590 Gagné (2020) 198, 250, 269, 351, 392, 396 Schibli (2002) 320 Versnel (2011) 126, 133
cave, allegory of republic	Ebrey and Kraut (2022) 19, 20, 196, 241, 244, 247, 305, 316, 325, 327, 355, 383, 385, 386, 387, 388, 390, 395, 398
cave, allegory of the	Segev (2017) 8, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 Struck (2016) 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 220
cave, allegory, allegorical interpretation, plato’s	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021) 434, 445, 447, 453
cave, allegory, plato	Lightfoot (2021) 174, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 201, 205 Potter Suh and Holladay (2021) 434, 445, 447, 453
cave, analogy, plato	Graver (2007) 163
cave, and associations dunhuang, library of	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021) 231, 232
cave, at marathon, pan	Lupu(2005) 173
cave, burial, document burial and preservation	Taylor (2012) 287, 289
cave, burial, islam, manuscript	Taylor (2012) 289, 301
cave, corycian	Bernabe et al (2013) 62, 111, 291
cave, cult of pan	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020) 143
cave, dead sea scrolls, location, possible reasons for	Taylor (2012) 273, 284, 302
cave, dreams, in ancient near eastern literature, lugalbanda in the mountain	Renberg (2017) 44
cave, dweller, hermes	Miller and Clay (2019) 339, 340, 341, 342, 343
cave, dwellers, troglodytes	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 92, 96, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103
cave, from	Rowland (2009) 19, 33, 36, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 78, 95, 106, 315, 374, 393
cave, in plato, plato, allegory of the	Segev (2017) 8, 33, 34, 42, 43, 44, 45
cave, korykian	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019) 119 Konig (2022) 65, 374
cave, literary and sub-literary works, ancient near east, lugalbanda in the mountain	Renberg (2017) 43, 44
cave, myth of the	Wilson (2010) 107, 347 Wilson (2012) 402
cave, of anastasis	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer (2022) 398
cave, of artemis	Dignas Parker and Stroumsa (2013) 142
cave, of bandits	Pinheiro et al (2012a) 5, 37, 56, 63, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 175, 176, 177
cave, of iv maccabees, machpelah	Gera (2014) 54, 260, 261, 473, 474, 475
cave, of john the baptist	Taylor (2012) 232
cave, of letters	Hachlili (2005) 398, 459
cave, of machpela	Poorthuis and Schwartz (2014) 93
cave, of machpelah	Bloch (2022) 112
cave, of nymphs	Dignas Parker and Stroumsa (2013) 153
cave, of pan at marathon	Lupu(2005) 173
cave, of pan, mt. parnes	Breytenbach and Tzavella (2022) 165, 171, 294
cave, of polyphemos, odysseus, in the	Legaspi (2018) 35, 36, 37, 38
cave, of robbers	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 115
cave, of the column, dead sea and area	Taylor (2012) 322
cave, of the nymphs	Niehoff (2011) 146, 150
cave, of the nymphs, homer, the	Tor (2017) 247, 248, 257
cave, of the nymphs, vari	Breytenbach and Tzavella (2022) 171
cave, of the patriarchs	Mendez (2022) 82
cave, of zeus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 6
cave, on the southern slope, masada, skeletons in	Cohen (2010) 142, 143
cave, plato, allegory of the	Mheallaigh (2014) 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269
cave, plato, simile of the	Tite (2009) 211
cave, platonism divided line vs. myth of the	Peppard (2011) 163
cave, pompey, and amycus'	Mcclellan (2019) 197
cave, priam, and amycus'	Mcclellan (2019) 197
cave, shrine of seven maccabee incubation, israelite/jewish, at matrona brothers, ?	Renberg (2017) 778
cave, shrine of seven maccabee syria, incubation at matrona brothers, ?	Renberg (2017) 778
cave, shrines	Parker (2005) 69, 70
cave, talleian	Miller and Clay (2019) 341, 342
cave, true stories, plato's allegory of the	Mheallaigh (2014) 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229
cave, vari	Miller and Clay (2019) 34 Versnel (2011) 482
caves	Konig (2022) 25, 26, 37, 43, 44, 72, 77, 82, 167, 200, 208, 209, 247, 265, 266, 294, 298, 366 Schwartz (2008) 133 Shannon-Henderson (2019) 103, 104, 105
caves, artificial dead sea scrolls, marl	Taylor (2012) 33, 34, 280, 293, 299, 342
caves, as interior spaces	Jenkyns (2013) 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284
caves, as temporary store, dead sea scrolls, marl	Taylor (2012) 293, 294
caves, bar kokhba	Schiffman (1983) 95
caves, dead sea scrolls, and natural	Taylor (2012) 280, 284
caves, interior spaces	Jenkyns (2013) 272, 273, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284
caves, magnesia on the maeander, gas-spewing	Rojas(2019) 200
caves, of sleep	Jenkyns (2013) 283
caves/caverns	Marek (2019) 264, 510, 511, 516, 535, 547
jar/cave, storage, egypt, and scroll	Taylor (2012) 289

List of validated texts:

6 validated results for "cave"

1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 6.1-6.2, 6.4, 23.19, 25.8, 25.17, 35.29, 49.29-49.31, 49.33, 50.12-50.13 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • IV Maccabees, Machpelah, cave of • Machpelah, Cave of • from Cave

Found in books: Bloch (2022) 112; Gera (2014) 54, 260, 473, 474, 475; Rowland (2009) 36, 47, 48, 56

6.1. וַיְהִי כִּי־הֵחֵל הָאָדָם לָרֹב עַל־פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה וּבָנוֹת יֻלְּדוּ לָהֶם׃
6.1. וַיּוֹלֶד נֹחַ שְׁלֹשָׁה בָנִים אֶת־שֵׁם אֶת־חָם וְאֶת־יָפֶת׃ 6.2. וַיִּרְאוּ בְנֵי־הָאֱלֹהִים אֶת־בְּנוֹת הָאָדָם כִּי טֹבֹת הֵנָּה וַיִּקְחוּ לָהֶם נָשִׁים מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר בָּחָרוּ׃ 6.2. מֵהָעוֹף לְמִינֵהוּ וּמִן־הַבְּהֵמָה לְמִינָהּ מִכֹּל רֶמֶשׂ הָאֲדָמָה לְמִינֵהוּ שְׁנַיִם מִכֹּל יָבֹאוּ אֵלֶיךָ לְהַחֲיוֹת׃
6.4. הַנְּפִלִים הָיוּ בָאָרֶץ בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם וְגַם אַחֲרֵי־כֵן אֲשֶׁר יָבֹאוּ בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים אֶל־בְּנוֹת הָאָדָם וְיָלְדוּ לָהֶם הֵמָּה הַגִּבֹּרִים אֲשֶׁר מֵעוֹלָם אַנְשֵׁי הַשֵּׁם׃
23.19. וְאַחֲרֵי־כֵן קָבַר אַבְרָהָם אֶת־שָׂרָה אִשְׁתּוֹ אֶל־מְעָרַת שְׂדֵה הַמַּכְפֵּלָה עַל־פְּנֵי מַמְרֵא הִוא חֶבְרוֹן בְּאֶרֶץ כְּנָעַן׃
25.8. וַיִּגְוַע וַיָּמָת אַבְרָהָם בְּשֵׂיבָה טוֹבָה זָקֵן וְשָׂבֵעַ וַיֵּאָסֶף אֶל־עַמָּיו׃
25.17. וְאֵלֶּה שְׁנֵי חַיֵּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל מְאַת שָׁנָה וּשְׁלֹשִׁים שָׁנָה וְשֶׁבַע שָׁנִים וַיִּגְוַע וַיָּמָת וַיֵּאָסֶף אֶל־עַמָּיו׃
35.29. וַיִּגְוַע יִצְחָק וַיָּמָת וַיֵּאָסֶף אֶל־עַמָּיו זָקֵן וּשְׂבַע יָמִים וַיִּקְבְּרוּ אֹתוֹ עֵשָׂו וְיַעֲקֹב בָּנָיו׃
49.29. וַיְצַו אוֹתָם וַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵהֶם אֲנִי נֶאֱסָף אֶל־עַמִּי קִבְרוּ אֹתִי אֶל־אֲבֹתָי אֶל־הַמְּעָרָה אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׂדֵה עֶפְרוֹן הַחִתִּי׃' '49.31. שָׁמָּה קָבְרוּ אֶת־אַבְרָהָם וְאֵת שָׂרָה אִשְׁתּוֹ שָׁמָּה קָבְרוּ אֶת־יִצְחָק וְאֵת רִבְקָה אִשְׁתּוֹ וְשָׁמָּה קָבַרְתִּי אֶת־לֵאָה׃
49.33. וַיְכַל יַעֲקֹב לְצַוֺּת אֶת־בָּנָיו וַיֶּאֱסֹף רַגְלָיו אֶל־הַמִּטָּה וַיִּגְוַע וַיֵּאָסֶף אֶל־עַמָּיו׃
50.12. וַיַּעֲשׂוּ בָנָיו לוֹ כֵּן כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּם׃ 50.13. וַיִּשְׂאוּ אֹתוֹ בָנָיו אַרְצָה כְּנַעַן וַיִּקְבְּרוּ אֹתוֹ בִּמְעָרַת שְׂדֵה הַמַּכְפֵּלָה אֲשֶׁר קָנָה אַבְרָהָם אֶת־הַשָּׂדֶה לַאֲחֻזַּת־קֶבֶר מֵאֵת עֶפְרֹן הַחִתִּי עַל־פְּנֵי מַמְרֵא׃''. None

6.1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 6.2. that the sons of nobles saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives, whomsoever they chose.
6.4. The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of nobles came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
23.19. And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre—the same is Hebron—in the land of Canaan.
25.8. And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
25.17. And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years; and he expired and died; and was gathered unto his people.
35.29. And Isaac expired, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
49.29. And be charged them, and said unto them: ‘I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 49.30. in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. 49.31. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
49.33. And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered unto his people.
50.12. And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them. 50.13. For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, in front of Mamre.''. None

2. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cave • Homer, the cave of the Nymphs • cave

Found in books: Beck (2006) 85, 86; Corrigan and Rasimus (2013) 583; Tor (2017) 247, 257

3. Herodotus, Histories, 4.13 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • cave

Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 154; Gagné (2020) 250

4.13. ἔφη δὲ Ἀριστέης ὁ Καϋστροβίου ἀνὴρ Προκοννήσιος ποιέων ἔπεα, ἀπικέσθαι ἐς Ἰσσηδόνας φοιβόλαμπτος γενόμενος, Ἰσσηδόνων δὲ ὑπεροικέειν Ἀριμασποὺς ἄνδρας μουνοφθάλμους ὕπερ δὲ τούτων τοὺς χρυσοφύλακας γρῦπας, τούτων δὲ τοὺς Ὑπερβορέους κατήκοντας ἐπὶ θάλασσαν. τούτους ὦν πάντας πλὴν Ὑπερβορέων, ἀρξάντων Ἀριμασπῶν, αἰεὶ τοῖσι πλησιοχώροισι ἐπιτίθεσθαι, καὶ ὑπὸ μὲν Ἀριμασπῶν ἐξωθέεσθαι ἐκ τῆς χώρης Ἰσσηδόνας, ὑπὸ δὲ Ἰσσηδόνων Σκύθας, Κιμμερίους δὲ οἰκέοντας ἐπὶ τῇ νοτίῃ θαλάσσῃ ὑπὸ Σκυθέων πιεζομένους ἐκλείπειν τὴν χώρην. οὕτω οὐδὲ οὗτος συμφέρεται περὶ τῆς χώρης ταύτης Σκύθῃσι.''. None

4.13. There is also a story related in a poem by Aristeas son of Caüstrobius, a man of Proconnesus . This Aristeas, possessed by Phoebus, visited the Issedones; beyond these (he said) live the one-eyed Arimaspians, beyond whom are the griffins that guard gold, and beyond these again the Hyperboreans, whose territory reaches to the sea. ,Except for the Hyperboreans, all these nations (and first the Arimaspians) are always at war with their neighbors; the Issedones were pushed from their lands by the Arimaspians, and the Scythians by the Issedones, and the Cimmerians, living by the southern sea, were hard pressed by the Scythians and left their country. Thus Aristeas' story does not agree with the Scythian account about this country. "". None

4. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Allegory of the Cave • Cave • Plato, Allegory of the Cave in Plato • Plato, Cave Allegory • Plato, Republic, cave analogy • Plato’s cave, • cave, allegory of (Republic)

Found in books: Corrigan and Rasimus (2013) 582; Ebrey and Kraut (2022) 247; Lightfoot (2021) 174, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198; Robbins et al (2017) 143; Segev (2017) 33; Ward (2021) 83

514b. πρόσθεν μόνον ὁρᾶν, κύκλῳ δὲ τὰς κεφαλὰς ὑπὸ τοῦ δεσμοῦ ἀδυνάτους περιάγειν, φῶς δὲ αὐτοῖς πυρὸς ἄνωθεν καὶ πόρρωθεν καόμενον ὄπισθεν αὐτῶν, μεταξὺ δὲ τοῦ πυρὸς καὶ τῶν δεσμωτῶν ἐπάνω ὁδόν, παρʼ ἣν ἰδὲ τειχίον παρῳκοδομημένον, ὥσπερ τοῖς θαυματοποιοῖς πρὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πρόκειται τὰ παραφράγματα, ὑπὲρ ὧν τὰ θαύματα δεικνύασιν. 515a. καὶ ἄλλα ζῷα λίθινά τε καὶ ξύλινα καὶ παντοῖα εἰργασμένα, οἷον εἰκὸς τοὺς μὲν φθεγγομένους, τοὺς δὲ σιγῶντας τῶν παραφερόντων.' '. None

514b. able to look forward only, and prevented by the fetters from turning their heads. Picture further the light from a fire burning higher up and at a distance behind them, and between the fire and the prisoners and above them a road along which a low wall has been built, as the exhibitors of puppet-shows have partitions before the men themselves, above which they show the puppets.” “All that I see,” he said. “See also, then, men carrying past the wall 515a. and shapes of animals as well, wrought in stone and wood and every material, some of these bearers presumably speaking and others silent.” “A strange image you speak of,” he said, “and strange prisoners.” “Like to us,” I said; “for, to begin with, tell me do you think that these men would have seen anything of themselves or of one another except the shadows cast from the fire on the wall of the cave that fronted them?” “How could they,” he said, “if they were compelled' '. None

5. Sophocles, Antigone, 955-965 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cave • cave

Found in books: Bednarek (2021) 49, 50, 51; Bernabe et al (2013) 283, 284

955. And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away.'956. And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away. 960. That man came to know the god whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries. For he had sought to quell the god-inspired women and the Bacchanalian fire, 965. and he angered the Muses who love the flute. '. None

6. None, None, nan (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • cave

Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 210; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022) 209

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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