Intersections: The Reception History of the Protoevangelium of James in Sources from the Christian East and in the Qu'rān
Scope of the Investigation This article discusses aspects of the reception history of the Protoevangelium of James in relationship to certain passages in the Qur 'ān that concern themselves with Mary and the birth of Jesus.1 There is no direct evidence that the author of the passages of Qur �...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2006
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Apocrypha
Year: 2006, Volume: 17, Pages: 113-150 |
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| Summary: | Scope of the Investigation This article discusses aspects of the reception history of the Protoevangelium of James in relationship to certain passages in the Qur 'ān that concern themselves with Mary and the birth of Jesus.1 There is no direct evidence that the author of the passages of Qur 'ān sūra 3 and sūra 19 used as a documentary source any text of the genre of Christian infancy gospels. Nevertheless, there are striking parallels between the verses of Qur 'ān sūra 3, sūra 19, and the Protoevangelium of James. In the light of that observation, the present investigation considers the text-critical problems of Qur 'ān sūra 19 following the proposal of the pseudonymous Christoph Luxenberg, some of whose work attempts to clarify key words in sūra 19.24 and provides a new reading of the text, one that suggests a closer dependence of Qur 'ān sūra 3 and sūra 19 on elements of the story attested in the Protoevangelium of James. In the proposal of the present article, the Protoevangelium of James is a witness to a story of which the author of the relevant verses of Qur 'ān sūra 19, also known as sūra Maryam, took cognizance. Whether the Protoevangelium of James is the original source of this story, or whether it attests to a story, the original of which has been lost, or which was in its earliest stages of a primarily oral nature, is a choice that cannot be made given the reach of present knowledge. This article concludes with a brief discussion of the method by which the question might be resolved through future research. |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.APOCRA.2.302050 |