Stephen J. Shoemaker is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Oregon.

Review from previous edition What is truly striking about this book is its meticulous and thorough research. Specialists in the Dormition materials and Marian devotion will henceforward meed to take into account Shoemaker's claims. Likewise, students and scholars of early Christianity will welcome the translations he provides in the appendices.

• 1. Earliest Dormition Traditions ; 2. Palestinian Cult of the Virgin ; 3. Rival Traditions of Mary's Death ; 4. Prehistory and Origins of the Dormition Traditions ; APPENDICES ; A. The Ethiopic Liber Requiei ; B. Earliest Greek Dormition Narrative ; C. Fifth-Century Syriac Fragments ; D. The Ethiopic 'Six Books' ; E. (Ps.-) Evodius of Rome ; F. Jacob of Serug ; G. Palm Narrative Parallels

Stephen J. Shoemaker is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Oregon.

Review from previous edition What is truly striking about this book is its meticulous and thorough research. Specialists in the Dormition materials and Marian devotion will henceforward meed to take into account Shoemaker's claims. Likewise, students and scholars of early Christianity will welcome the translations he provides in the appendices.

• 1. Earliest Dormition Traditions ; 2. Palestinian Cult of the Virgin ; 3. Rival Traditions of Mary's Death ; 4. Prehistory and Origins of the Dormition Traditions ; APPENDICES ; A. The Ethiopic Liber Requiei ; B. Earliest Greek Dormition Narrative ; C. Fifth-Century Syriac Fragments ; D. The Ethiopic 'Six Books' ; E. (Ps.-) Evodius of Rome ; F. Jacob of Serug ; G. Palm Narrative Parallels

Stephen J. Shoemaker is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Oregon.

Review from previous edition What is truly striking about this book is its meticulous and thorough research. Specialists in the Dormition materials and Marian devotion will henceforward meed to take into account Shoemaker's claims. Likewise, students and scholars of early Christianity will welcome the translations he provides in the appendices.

• 1. Earliest Dormition Traditions ; 2. Palestinian Cult of the Virgin ; 3. Rival Traditions of Mary's Death ; 4. Prehistory and Origins of the Dormition Traditions ; APPENDICES ; A. The Ethiopic Liber Requiei ; B. Earliest Greek Dormition Narrative ; C. Fifth-Century Syriac Fragments ; D. The Ethiopic 'Six Books' ; E. (Ps.-) Evodius of Rome ; F. Jacob of Serug ; G. Palm Narrative Parallels