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The dormition and assumption apocrypha /
This volume gathers a dozen essays by the author on the ancient traditions of Mary's Dormition and Assumption, all of which expand on the work published in his major study on this topic, 'The Ancient Traditions of Mary's Dormition and Assumption' (Oxford, 2002). The essays were o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leuven :
Peeters Publishers,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Studies on early Christian apocrypha ;
15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Death and the maiden : the early history of the Dormition and Assumption apocrypha
- Gender at the Virgin's funeral : men and women as witnesses to the Dormition
- Asceticism in the early Dormition narratives
- A peculiar version of the Inventio crucis in the early Syriac Dormition traditions
- "Let us go and burn her body" : the image of the Jews in the early Dormition traditions
- Rethinking the "Gnostic Mary" : Mary of Nazareth and Mary of Magdala in early Christian tradition
- Apocrypha and liturgy : the case of the "six books" Dormition apocryphon
- Epiphanius of Salamis, the Kollyridians, and the early Dormition narratives : the cult of the Virgin in the fourth century
- The Sahidic Coptic homily on the Dormition of the Virgin attributed to Evodius of Rome (Morgan MSS 596 & 598) : an edition and translation
- A new Dormition fragment in Coptic : P. Vindob. K 7589 and the Marian apocryphal tradition
- New Syriac Dormition fragments from palimpsests in the Schøyen Collection and the British Library
- Apocalyptic traditions in the Armenian Dormition narratives.