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This book is the first modern collection of studies on important aspects
of the Protevangelium of James. The volume opens with three
chapters on introductory questions, such as the canonical or apocryphal
status of the Protevangelium in early Christianity, its date,
author and provenance, and the way it adapted and developed earlier
traditions about the birth of Jesus. The subsequent chapters first focus
on the protagonists Mary and Joseph, after which they discuss the Jewish
aspects of the Protevangelium, Salome's manual inspection of
Mary, the place and nature of space in the Protevangelium, and
the question of the text's consistency and coherence. The final two
chapters discuss a series of annunciation scenes in Christian and
Islamic literature, which are often heavily dependent on the
Protevangelium, and the latter's reception in the Armenian
Gospel of the Infancy. The Appendix looks at the Armenian apocryphal
text entitled Script of the Lord's Infancy, a witness to the
great popularity enjoyed in Armenia by the early Syriac apocryphal
stories of Christ's birth and childhood. As has become usual, the volume
concludes with an extensive bibliography and a detailed index.
