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Volume 17, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1155-3316
  • E-ISSN: 2034-6468

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Scope of the Investigation This article discusses aspects of the reception history of the Protoevangelium of James in relationship to certain passages in the Qur 'ān that concern themselves with Mary and the birth of Jesus.1 There is no direct evidence that the author of the passages of Qur 'ān sūra 3 and sūra 19 used as a documentary source any text of the genre of Christian infancy gospels. Nevertheless, there are striking parallels between the verses of Qur 'ān sūra 3, sūra 19, and the Protoevangelium of James. In the light of that observation, the present investigation considers the text-critical problems of Qur 'ān sūra 19 following the proposal of the pseudonymous Christoph Luxenberg, some of whose work attempts to clarify key words in sūra 19.24 and provides a new reading of the text, one that suggests a closer dependence of Qur 'ān sūra 3 and sūra 19 on elements of the story attested in the Protoevangelium of James. In the proposal of the present article, the Protoevangelium of James is a witness to a story of which the author of the relevant verses of Qur 'ān sūra 19, also known as sūra Maryam, took cognizance. Whether the Protoevangelium of James is the original source of this story, or whether it attests to a story, the original of which has been lost, or which was in its earliest stages of a primarily oral nature, is a choice that cannot be made given the reach of present knowledge. This article concludes with a brief discussion of the method by which the question might be resolved through future research.

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Cet article discute quelques éléments de l'histoire de la réception du Protévangile de Jacques en relation avec des passages du Coran à propos de Marie et de la naissance de Jésus. Iln'y a pas de preuve directe que l'auteur des Sourates 3 et 19 ait utilisé une source documentaire du genre des évangiles de l'enfance. Il y a cependant des parallèles étroits entre le Coran et le Protévangile de Jacques. Cette étude analyse les problèmes critiques soulevés par la proposition énoncée sous le pseudonyme de C. Luxenberg à propos de mots clé de la Sourate 19, 24 et propose une nouvelle lecture du texte qui s'appuie sur la relation de Sourates 3 et 19 en lien avec des éléments présents dans le Protévangile de Jacques. Ce dernier texte atteste d'une histoire dont l'auteur de la sourate 19, la sourate de Marie, a eu connaissance. Que le Protévangile de Jacques soit la source originale ou qu'il atteste d'une histoire, sous forme de tradition orale, maintenant perdue, il n'est pas possible de choisir dans l'état actuel des investigations. Cet article propose pour finir quelques remarques sur la méthode à envisager pour des recherches ultérieures.

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2006-01-01
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