Shoemaker, Stephen J. - Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption

A comprehensive study of the ancient Dormition and Assumption traditions, a collection of over sixty narratives, preserved in nine ancient languages, that commemorate the end of the Virgin Mary's life.

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CONTENTS

1 Earliest Dormition Traditions
2 Palestinian Cult of the Virgin
3 Rival Traditions of Mary's Death
4 Prehistory and Origins of the Dormition Traditions
Appendices
A. The Ethiopic Liber Requiei
B. Earliest Greek Dormition Narrative
C. Fifth-Century Syriac Fragments
D. The Ethiopic 'Six Books'
E. (Ps.-) Evodius of Rome
F. Jacob of Serug
G. Palm Narrative Parallels

Series	Oxford Early Christian Studies