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Introduction and Resources

 István Czachesz

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

Texts

For the major Acts, consider first:

  • Bonnet, M., Acta apostolorum apocrypha, Leipzig: vol 2/1, 1898; vol 2/2, 1903 (repr. Darmstadt: 1959).
  • Corpus Christianorum - Series Apocryphorum, a series published in Turnhout since 1983.
  • Lipsius, R.A., Acta apostolorum apocrypha, vol 1, Leipzig: 1891 (repr. Darmstadt: 1959).

Other editions containing several Acts:

  • Bedjan, P., Acta martyrum et sanctorum Syriacae, Paris: 1892 (repr. Hildesheim: 1968).
  • Budge, E.A.W., The Contendings of the Apostles Being the Histories of the Lives and Martyrdoms and Death of the Twelve Apostles and Evangelists: The Ethiopic Texts Now First Edited, vol 1, The Ethiopic Text, London: 1899.
  • James, M.R., Apocrypha Anecdota. A Collection of Thirteen Apocryphical Books and Fragments, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1893.
  • Smith Lewis, A., Acta Mythologica Apostolorum, London: 1904. Arabic Acts of the Apostles.
  • Wright, W., Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, vol 1, London: 1871. Syriac Acts of the Apostles.
  • For the Ethiopic Acts, see Malan under Translations
  • For the Old Slavonic Acts, see De Santos Otero under Printed Resources
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