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The Abode of the Blessed: a Source of the Story of Zosimus?

Modern scholarship on the apocryphon called the Story (or Apocalypse) of Zosimus, also termed the History of the Rechabites (although I use this title for chs. 8-10, not for the whole text), is agreed that the document is, in its present form, both Christian and composite: the story of the visit of the holy monk Zosimus to the dwelling place of the Blessed Ones has been created, at least partly, out of a combination of other texts. There is, however, no agreement on what these sources are and how extensive they may be in the present text. My purpose in this article is, therefore, to examine afresh this question: what are the sources of the Story of Zosimus? I will propose that, along with chs. 8-10, the History of the Rechabites, already identified as one of the sources of the whole text, a second coherent text and source, called (for the sake of clarity) the Abode of the Blessed, can be discerned in chs. 11-16. I will also offer some preliminary observations on this second source of the Story of Zosimus. In what follows, Story of Zosimus is abbreviated as Stor. Zos., History of the Rechabites as Hist. Rech., and Abode of the Blessed as Ab. Bles. Chapter and verse divisions follow Charlesworth.’ I