Acts of Andrew and Bartholomew

The Acts of Andrew and Bartholomew is a 5th century Nestorian text written in Koine Greek which is one of many apocryphal acts of the apostles.[1] The work was influential on later Christian hagiographies of Saint Mercurius and Saint Christopher,[2] as well as medieval Islamic traditions.[1]

Published editions

English

  • Lewis, Agnes Smith (1904). The Mythological Acts of the Apostles. Horae semiticae. C.J. Clay. p. 11ff. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  • Budge, Ernest Alfred Wallis (1901). "The acts of saints Andrew and Bartholomew among the Parthians". The contendings of the Apostles: Being the histories of the lives and martyrdoms and deaths of the twelve apostles and evangelists: The Ethiopic texts now first edited from manuscripts in the British Museum, with an English translation. 2. p. 183ff. Translated from Ethiopic.

Ethiopic

  • Budge, Ernest Alfred Wallis (1899). The contendings of the Apostles: Being the histories of the lives and martyrdoms and deaths of the twelve apostles and evangelists: The Ethiopic texts now first edited from manuscripts in the British Museum, with an English translation (in Ethiopic). 1. p. 156-183.

See also

Citations

References

  • Frakes, R.; Digeser, E. (2006). Religious Identity in Late Antiquity. Dundurn. ISBN 978-0-88866-653-6.
  • White, David Gordon (1991). Myths of the Dog-Man. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-89509-3.

Further reading

  • Friedman, John Block (2000). The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought. Syracuse University Press. p. 61, 70. ISBN 978-0-8156-2826-2.
  • Orchard, A. (2003). Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf-manuscript. University of Toronto Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-8020-8583-2.
  • Porter, J.R.; Russell, W.M.S. (1978). Animals in folklore. D. S. Brewer. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-85991-034-7.
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