Ancient traditions of the Virgin Mary's dormition and assumption [electronic resource] / Stephen J. Shoemaker.
Series: Oxford early Christian studiesPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002.Description: xi, 477 pContent type:- text
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- 0199250758 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-453) and index.
List of figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The earliest dormition traditions
2. The ancient Palestinian cult of the virgin and the early dormition traditions
3. Rival traditions of Mary's death
4. The prehistory and origins of the dormition and assumption traditions
Appendices : select translations of early dormition narratives
A. The Ethiopic Liber Requiei
B. The earliest Greek dormition narrative
C. Fifth-century Syriac palimpsest fragments of the 'Six books'
D. The Ethiopic 'Six books'
E. The Sahidic Coptic Homily on the dormition, attributed to Evodius of Rome
F. Jacob of Serug, Homily on the dormition
G. Parallels to the Liber Requiei from the early Palm Narratives
Bibliography
Index
