Assumption of the Virgin and APOSTASIA

BillCombs@aol.com
Tue, 15 Jul 1997 13:17:41 -0400 (EDT)

I am trying to find out the date of a NT apocryphal work entitled The
Assumption of the Virgin. It uses APOSTASIA to describe a literal physical
rapture. Edgar Hennecke, New Testament Apocrypha, 1:429, says that it is no
earlier that 400 A.D. Does anyone know where I might find more info on this.

Bill Combs
Detroit Baptist Thelogical Seminary