Mary and the Protoevangelium of James

It is a 2nd century infancy gospel on the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary, her upbringing and marriage to Joseph, the journey of the couple to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and events immediately following.
It is the earliest surviving assertion of the perpetual virginity of Mary, meaning her virginity not only prior to the birth of Jesus, but during and afterwards.
Condemned by Pope Innocent the Ist in 405 and rejected by the Gelasian Decree around 500AD, yet became a widely influential source for Mariology.
The Gospel of James was well known to Origen in the early 3rd century and probably to Clement of Alexandria at the end of the 2nd, so is assumed to have been in circulation soon after ~150 AD.
The author claims to be James, the half-brother of Jesus by an earlier marriage of Joseph, but in fact his identity is unknown. Early studies assumed a Jewish milieu, largely because of its frequent use and knowledge of the Septuagint (a Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures). Further investigation demonstrated that it misunderstands and/or misrepresents many Jewish practices.

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[sashkasashkasashkasashka]

I JUST discussed this with a Catholic some days ago. Perfect timing. Thank you for your work and God bless you!

[rkitsune]

Excellent video, where is that smooth Lloyd voice though?

[cogitergo]

This is fine to speed up the output of material since it sounds like you have a huge backlog. Don't know if you ever heard "Daughter of Christ"'s voice on DCCI's channel - but AI needs to reach that level of quality. 🙂
I'm waiting for the Zakir Naik AI voice to make the "Magic Verse" recording that Mo Hijab recited to Jordan Peterson that made him a revert. Will blare it from a moving van and make instant reverts. Of a surety.... 😀LOL!!!

[Ldad]

The Protoevangelium is apart of Orthodox Church tradition while being not part of the biblical canon.

[Weissguys]

The Quran thinking fan-fiction is Scripture. Oh, dear.