Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Apocalypse of the Virgin/Introduction

The Apocalypse of the Virgin.

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Introduction.

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The present translation of this Apocalypse is made from the text as published by Mr. M. R. James in Texts and Studies, ii., 3, from a in the Bodleian Library, which he assigns to the eleventh century.&#160; The original he conjecturally assigns to the ninth century, and regards it as a late and clumsy compilation based on (1) the Assumption Legends and (2) the Apocalypse of Paul.&#160; Its main feature, intercession for the lost, it has in common with the Testament of Abraham, the Apocalypse of Paul, 4 Esdras, the Apocalypse of Baruch, the Apocalypse of Esdras and the Apocalypse of Sedrach.&#160; Parallels are pointed out in the notes.