How Do We Account for the Astonishing Diversity of the Stories of Mary's Assumption?

Dormitionnara s came up in the late fifth century, they differ on nearly all the details. The only real common features that i can detect are that there's some kind of conflict between mary and the jewish leadership. In other texts, like the gospel of bartholomew, you get a bodily assumption as well. With these ones, there's often an interval of time between her burial and then her resurrect and assumption to heaven.