Abstract
It has long been recognized by scholars that the famous "pericope adulterae" in John 7, 53 - 8, 11 did not constitute an original part of the fourth Gospel. This article reexamines the origins of the Johannine story of the adulteress and explores the possibility of a literary connection between this controversial passage and the New Testament Apocryphon known as the Protevangelium Jacobi. Text-, redaction-, and form-critical methodologies employed in this investigation support the existence of such a connection and suggest that the Genesis Mariae, a hypothetical source document underlying the Protevangelium, may have served as the prototype for the "pericope adulterae".
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