Bibliography for the Protoevangelium Jacobi

The Best Introductions with English Translations (Vorster does not have an ET) Cullmann, Oscar. The Protoevangelium of James. In New Testament Apocrypha. Vol. 1. Edited by Wilhelm Schneemelcher and translated by R. McL. Wilson. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1991; Pp. 370-388. Ehrman, Bart D. and Zlatko Plese. The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2011; Pp. 31-71. Elliott, J.K. The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation Based on M. R. James. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993; Pp. 48-67. Hock, Ronald F. The Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas, with Introduction, Notes, and Original Text Featuring the New Scholars Version Translation. Santa Rosa: Polebridge Press, 1995. Vorster, Willem S. James, Protoevangelium of. In The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Vol. 3. Edited by D. N. Friedman et al. New York: Doubleday, 1992; Pp. 629-32. Commentary Smid, Harm R. Protoevangelium Jacobi: A Commentary. Assen: van Gorcum, 1965. Critical Editions of the Greek Text de Strycker, E. La Forme la plus ancienne du Protvangile de Jacques. Recherches sur le papyrus Bodmer 5 acev une edition critique du text grec et une traduction annote. Brussels: Socit des Bollandistes, 1961. Testuz, Michel, ed. Papyrus Bodmer V: Nativit de Marie. Geneva: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 1958. von Tischendorf, Constantine. Evangelia Apocrypha. Leipzig: Mendelssohn, 1853; 2nd ed. 1876; Pp. xii-xxii, 1-50. Sources, Date, and Manuscript Tradition of the PJ Cothenet, E. Le Protvangile de Jacques: origine, genre et signification dun premier midrash Chrtien sur la nativit de Marie, in Aufstieg und Niedergang der rmischen Welt 2.25.6 (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1988); Pp. 42524269. Daniels, Boyd L. The Greek Manuscript Tradition of the Protoevangelium Jacobi. 2 vols. (Unpublished) PhD dissertation, Duke University, 1956. van Stempvoort P. A. The Protoevangelium Jacobi, the Sources or Its Theme and Style and Their Bearing on Its Date. In Studia Evangelica III. Edited by F. Cross. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1964; Pp. 410-26. Zervos, George T. Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of the Genesis Marias (Protoevangelium Jacobi): The Greek Manuscripts. (Unpublished) PhD dissertation, Duke University, 1986. -----. Seeking the Source of the Marian Myth: Have We Found the Missing Links? In Which Mary? The Marys of Early Christian Tradition. Edited by F. Stanley Jones. Leiden: Brill, 2002; Pp. 107-120.

Virginity and Purity Foskett, Mary F. A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. -----. Virginity as Purity in the Protoevangelium of James. In A Feminist Companion to Mariology. Edited by Amy-Jill Levine with Maria Mayo Robbins. New York/London: T&T Clark, 2005; Pp. 67-76. van der Horst, Pieter W. Sex, Birth, Purity and Asceticism in the Protoevangelium Jacobi. In A Feminist Companion to Mariology. Edited by Amy-Jill Levine with Maria Mayo Robbins. New York/London: T&T Clark, 2005; Pp. 56-66. Vuong, Lily C. Gender and Purity in the Protoevangelium of James. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming 2013. Reception History of the PJ Gambero, Luigi. Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999. Horn, Cornelia B. Mary between Bible and Quran: Soundings into the Transmission and Reception History of the Protoevangelium of James on the Basis of Selected Literary Sources in Coptic and Copto-Arabic and of Art-Historical Evidence Pertaining to Egypt. Islam and ChristianMuslim Relations 18.4 (2007) 509538. -----. Intersections: The Reception History of the Protoevangelium of James in Sources from the Christian East and in the Quran. Apocrypha 17 (2007) 135-172. Specific Studies on Individual Themes or Chapters in the PJ Bovon, Francois. The Suspension of Time in Chapter 18 of Protoevangelium Jacobi. In The Future of Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Helmut Koester. Edited by B. Pearson. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992; Pp. 393-405. Horner, Timothy J. Jewish Aspects of the Protoevangelium of James. Journal of Early Christian Studies 12.3 (2004) 313-335. Playoust, Catherine and Ellen Bradshaw Aitken. The Leaping Child: Imaging the Unborn in Early Christian Literature. In Imaging the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture. Edited by Vanessa R. Sasson and Jane Marie Law. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009; Pp. 157-183. Vorster, Willem S. The Annunciation of the Birth of Jesus in the Protoevangelium of James. In A South African Perspective on the New Testament. Edited by J.H. Petzer and P.J. Martin. Leiden: Brill, 1986; Pp. 34-53. Zervos, George T. Christmas with Salome. In A Feminist Companion to Mariology. Edited by Amy-Jill Levine with Maria Mayo Robbins. New York/London: T&T Clark, 2005; Pp. 77-98.