An Overlooked Christian Palestinian Aramaic Witness of the “Dormition of Mary” in Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCR IV)

Abstract

The Codex Climaci Rescriptus(CCR IV) contains a neglected text witness of the Dormition of Maryfrom the five-book cycle or “palm narrative”. It is one of the very early transmissions of this apocryphal text in Christian Palestinian Aramaic agreeing in closeness with the very late Ethiopic one of the 18th century.