Apocalypse of the Virgin (Ethiopic)

Apocalypsis Mariae

Standard abbreviation: Apoc. Vir. Eth.

Other titles:

Clavis numbers: ECCA 548; CANT 330

VIAF:

Category: Apocalypses

Related literature: Apocalypse of Paul

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1. SUMMARY

Uses Apoc. Paul 12-16, 19-20, 23-31, 34-41, 43-44; additions in Eth Chaine pp. 48, 49, 52-57,58-59, 60-61

Muslims are in hell (p. 66)

Named historical figures and characters:

Geographical locations:

2. RESOURCES

3. BIBLIOGRAPHY

3.1 Manuscripts and Editions

3.1.1 Ethiopic (BHO 653)

A  Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Éthiopien d’Abbadie 214, fols. 6–31 ~ catalog; GALLICA

B  Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Éthiopien 146, fols. 143–153

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Éthiopien 55, fols. 1–26

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Comb. H.9, pp. 3–77 (19th cent.)

Chaîne, Marius. Apocrypha de Beata Maria Virgine. CSCO 39-40. Rome: de Luigi, 1909 (reissued Leuven: Secrétariat du CSCO, 1962) (text of A with readings from B in the apparatus, pp. 50–78; and Latin translation, pp. 43–68).

3.2 Translations

3.2.1 English

Budge, E. A. Wallis. Legends of Our Lady the Perpetual Virgin and her Mother Hanna. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1922 (pp. 245–78).

3.2.2 Italian

Erbetta, Mario. Gli apocrifi del Nuovo Testamento. 3 vols. Italy: Marietti, 1975–1981 (vol. 3, pp. 455–70).

3.2.3 Latin

Chaîne, Marius. Apocrypha de Beata Maria Virgine. CSCO 39-40. Rome: de Luigi, 1909 (reissued Leuven: Secrétariat du CSCO, 1962) (text, pp. 50–78; and Latin translation, pp. 43–68).

3.3 General Works

Bauckham, Richard. “The Conflict of Justice and Mercy: Attitudes to the Damned in Apocalyptic Literature.” Apocrypha 1 (1990): 181–96.

__________. “Virgin, Apocalypses of the.” Pages 854–56 in volume 6 of Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by David Noel Freedman. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

__________. “The Four Apocalypses of the Virgin Mary.” Pages 332–62 in The Fate of the Dead: Studies on Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 93. Leiden: Brill, 1998 (pp. 338–40).

Berger, K. “Der Streit des guten und des bösen Engels um die Seele:
Beobachtungen zu 4QAmrb und Judas 9.”’ JSJ 4 (1973): 1–18.

Chaîne, M. “Le Cycle de la Vierge dans les apocryphes éthiopiens.” Mélanges de la Faculté Orientale de l’Université Saint-Joseph (Beyrouth) 1 (1906): 189–96.

Himmelfarb, Martha. Tours of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.

Mimouni, Simon C. “Les Apocalypses de la Vierge: État de la question.” Apocrypha 4 (1993): 101–12.

Peeters, Paul. “Apocrypha de B. Maria Virgine.” AnBol 29 (1910): 197–99.