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I minor addition to the virgin birth ante partum, in partu, post partum:
the miraculous birth, "without let to her maidenhood" is testified gynecologically by the sceptic Salome in the Protevangelium Jacobi. Salome's inquiring hand, however, becomes lame, and this punishment of her incredulity will only be healed by touching the Child in the manger.
The ProtEv, which injoyed near-canonical status until the end of the fourth century, but exercised a strong influence long after it's inclusion into the apocrypha by the Decretum Gelasianum, survives in the West under the title of Pseudo-Matthew, a somewhat modified - concocted - Latin version.
Gyorgy Gereby
Medieval Studies Dept.
Central European University, Budapest
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