The Book of the Cave of Treasures

by E.A. Wallis Budge, M. Alexandria Steeves (Narrator)

In the beginning, on the First Day, which was the holy First Day of the Week, the chief and firstborn of all the days, God, created the heavens, and the earth, and the waters, and the air, and the fire, and the hosts which are invisible (that is to say, the Angels, Archangels, Thrones, Lords, Principalities, Powers, Cherubim and Seraphim), and all the ranks and companies of Spiritual beings, and the Light, and the Night, and the Day-time, and the gentle winds and the strong winds.

Genres: Theology, Religion

Audible Audio

First published April 1, 2003

About the author

Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.

Reviews

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting collection of apocrypha of questionable authenticity, but still fascinating as an insight into what early Christians included in their general beliefs. Kind of borders on headcanon at times with some of the elaborate connections being. And at one point the writer declares that since nobody else knows accurately all of the generations from Adam to Christ, he will write them down for us (it's never explained why he knows and nobody else does). Love it.

[Siobhan]

Link to free audiobook: https://youtu.be/XkrsNK6Wrk8

[Abri Theart]

Interesting!

[Fiona Robson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an amazing book to read - a fascinating apocryphal work which supplemented other knowledge e.g. it went into Mary's genealogy and gave further anecdotal accounts of the patriarchs etc. Was particularly interested in tales of the Grigori or "The Watchers".

[Jackson Conrad · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gives a great "outline" of life from Creation to the Death and resurrection of Jesus.