Gospel Of Gamaliel
Called Gospel of Gamaliel (or pseudo-Gamaliel)
This story, whose narrator is as Gamaliel , teacher of the Apostle Paul of Tarsus , is found in several excerpts interspersed in a sermon of a bishop Heryaqos The Lamentation of Mary. This text is translated into Ethiopian ( Ge'ez ), an Arabic version, derived perhaps itself originally an original Coptic.
The text, in the tradition of the Coptic Christian church, which makes Pontius Pilate , the Roman prefect who condemned Jesus, a saint who converted to Christianity, presents a favorable light. It probably inspired the A review of Acts of Pilate , and could date from the second half of the fifth century
The story of the Passion of Christ in the Gospel of Gamaliel was adapted into Old French version exists in a dozen manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
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- Marcus A. van den Oudenrijn Gamaliel: Texte zur thiopisch Pilatusliteratur, Spicilegium Friburgensis 4, Freiburg (1959)
- 14 and 15 fragment of the Twelve Apostles Gospel edited by NS. Revillout Patrologia Orientalis II
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- Marcus A. van den Oudenrijn Gamaliel: Texte zur thiopisch Pilatusliteratur, Spicilegium Friburgensis 4, Freiburg (1959).
- Robert Bellot Brief Overview of the main texts of the Acta Pilati Ethiopian derivatives in Oriental Languages and Linguistics, Philology Former No. 1 / 1988, Leuven - Paris P. 181-195.
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