The Book of Mary's Repose Is a Gnostic Narrative

The story of mary's remarkable death and her almost immediate entry into the transformed condition of christ's risen body seems first to have been circulated among anti chalcedonian christians in the late fifth century. Daily argues that a lot of the earliest texts appear to be heterodox, and even some, in some cases, gnostic. He speaks of widespread agreement that the earliest accounts come from outside of the proto orthodox stream of christianity.