Table of Contents
A Introduction 1 Contexts - Uta Heil
2 Texts in addition to the Letter from Heaven - Uta Heil
3 Letter from Heaven
3.1 Introduction and Research History - Uta Heil
3.2 Latin Manuscripts - Angela Zielinski Kinney
3.3 Manuscript Studies (Latin) - Angela Zielinski Kinney
3.3.1 Methodology
3.3.2 Additional Manuscripts of the Latin Letter from Heaven
3.3.3 Results: Latin Recension I
3.3.4 Results: Latin Recension II
3.3.5 Preliminary Conclusions
3.4 Greek Manuscripts - Canan Arıkan-Caba
3.5 History of the Letter from Heaven - Uta Heil
4 Considerations
4.1 Framing, Structure, and Discovery Legends - Uta Heil
4.2 Rest or Work - Uta Heil
4.2.1 The Sabbath Commandment in the Greek Sunday Apocrypha
4.2.2 Legacy of Eusebius of Caearea?
4.2.3 Sunday Rest in the Latin Letter from Heaven
4.2.4 A Day of Reconciliation
4.2.5 Ecclesiastical Canons and Punitive Miracles
4.2.6 Duration of Sunday until Monday Morning
4.3 Threats and Punishments - Uta Heil
4.4 Punishment of Women - Uta Heil
5 Evaluation - Uta Heil
B Texts and Translations
1 The Letter of Licinianus of Cartagena - Philip Polcar
2 Letter from Heaven - Latin Recension II - Philip Polcar and Christoph Scheerer
3 Letter from Heaven - Latin Recension II as Inscription - Michel-Yves Perrin
4 Letter from Heaven - Latin Recension I - Philip Polcar
5 Letter from Heaven - Greek Recension Alpha - Canan Arıkan-Caba
6 Letter from Heaven - Greek Recension Beta - Angela Zielinski Kinney
7 Letter from Heaven - Greek Recension Beta (London) - Canan Arıkan-Caba
8 The so-called Acts of the Council of Caesarea - Uta Heil and Christoph Scheerer
9 Sophronius of Jerusalem / Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus - Uta Heil
10 Visio Pauli 34 or Apocalypse of Paul 44 - Uta Heil
11 A homily „Today, my beloved, I'd like to praise the day of the Lord" - Annette von Stockhausen
12 A "Question and answer about Sunday" - Annette von Stockhausen
13 A homily „Hear, all brothers Christians, what the prophetssay" - Annette von Stockhausen
14 Four Names for Sunday (from Codex Vaticanus graecus 2392) - Renate Burri
15 Diataxis - Instructions of the Twelve Apostles - Uta Heil and Ioannis Grossmann
16 The Second Apocryphal Apocalypse of John - Uta Heil
17 The Apocalypse of Anastasia - Uta Heil
C Literature