The Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption

Contens......Page 14
List of Figures......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 17
Introduction......Page 18
1. The Earliest Dormition Traditions: Their Nature and Shape......Page 26
The Ancient Traditions of Mary’s Dormition and Assumption......Page 42
Conclusions......Page 93
2. The Ancient Palestinian Cult of the Virgin and the Early Dormition Traditions......Page 95
The Ancient Church of the Kathisma and the Origins of the Palestinian Cult of the Virgin......Page 98
The Church of Mary in the Valley of Josaphat and the Tomb of the Virgin......Page 115
Christian Eulogiai and the Palestinian Cult of the Virgin......Page 124
The Origins, Shape, and Development of Marian Cult in Late Ancient Jerusalem......Page 132
The Emergence of a Stational Marian Liturgy in Early Medieval Jerusalem......Page 149
Conclusions......Page 157
3. Rival Traditions of Mary’s Death: The Independent Origins of the Ancient Dormition Traditions......Page 159
Against the Priority of an Assumptionless Tradition: The Obsequies, the Liber Requiei, and the Palm Traditions......Page 163
Topography, Liturgy, and the Question of Origins......Page 185
A Garden Closed and Reopened: Late Ancient Paradise Traditions as Evidence of Independent Origins......Page 196
Conclusions......Page 220
4. The Prehistory and Origins of the Dormition and Assumption Traditions......Page 222
Early Christian Heterodoxy and the Prehistory of the Dormition Traditions......Page 226
Resistance to Chalcedon and the Origin of the Dormition Traditions......Page 273
Conclusions......Page 295
Conclusion......Page 297
A. The Ethiopic Liber Requiei......Page 307
B. The Earliest Greek Dormition Narrative......Page 368
C. Fifth-Century Syriac Palimpsest Fragments of the ‘Six Books’......Page 387
D. The Ethiopic Six Books......Page 392
E. The Sahidic Coptic Homily on the Dormition Attributed to Evodius of Rome......Page 414
F. Jacob of Serug, Homily on the Dormition......Page 425
G. Parallels to the Liber Requiei from the Early Palm Narratives......Page 432
Bibliography......Page 436
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