The Transitus Mariæ: The tradition and its Origins
This article discusses recent attempts to classify the early transitus texts and to determine which group of texts is the earliest. The Syriac Obsequies, which belongs to the same textual family as the Greek R and related texts, is of crucial importance here. This family emphasized Mary's fear...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1999
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Apocrypha
Year: 1999, Volume: 10, Pages: 74-98 |
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| Summary: | This article discusses recent attempts to classify the early transitus texts and to determine which group of texts is the earliest. The Syriac Obsequies, which belongs to the same textual family as the Greek R and related texts, is of crucial importance here. This family emphasized Mary's fear of death and described her assumption to a paradise separate from heaven, where her body was placed under the tree of life and the soul replaced; a descensus followed, describing the visit of Mary and the apostles to hell and, perhaps, heaven. The development of the tradition is traced through R, the Latin texts and the Old English narratives. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Apocrypha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.APOCRA.2.300779 |