Caught in the Act: Mary and the Adulteress
It has long been recognized by scholars that the famous "pericope adulterae" in John 7, 53 - 8, 11 did not constitute an original part of the fourth Gospel. This article reexamines the origins of the Johannine story of the adulteress and explores the possibility of a literary connection be...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2004
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Apocrypha
Year: 2004, Volume: 15, Pages: 57-114 |
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| Summary: | It has long been recognized by scholars that the famous "pericope adulterae" in John 7, 53 - 8, 11 did not constitute an original part of the fourth Gospel. This article reexamines the origins of the Johannine story of the adulteress and explores the possibility of a literary connection between this controversial passage and the New Testament Apocryphon known as the Protevangelium Jacobi. Text-, redaction-, and form-critical methodologies employed in this investigation support the existence of such a connection and suggest that the Genesis Mariae, a hypothetical source document underlying the Protevangelium, may have served as the prototype for the "pericope adulterae". |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Apocrypha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.APOCRA.2.300049 |