Assumption of the Virgin and APOSTASIA

From: BillCombs@aol.com
Date: Tue Jul 15 1997 - 13:17:41 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



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