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Printed Resources

• Bovon, F., "Apocryphal and Canonical Acts of the Apostles", Journal of Early Christian Studies 11 (2003), pp. 165-194.
• Bovon, F., et al., "Miracles, magie et guérison dans les Actes apocryphes des apôtres", Journal of Early Christian Studies 3 (1995), pp. 245-259.
• Bovon, F., et al., eds, Les Actes apocryphes des apôtres, Geneva: 1981.
• Bovon, F., et al., eds, The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, Cambridge, MA: 1999.
• Bremmer, J.N. "The Apocryphal Acts: Authors, Place, Time and Readership", in idem (ed), The Apocryphal Acts of Thomas, Leuven: 2001, pp. 149-170.
• Czachesz, I., Commission Narratives: A Comparative Study of the Canonical and Apocryphal Acts, Leuven: 2007 (see also under online resources below).
• Czachesz, I., ed, Tanítványok, csodatevők, mártírok: Tanulmányok az apokrif apostol- aktákról, Budapest: 1997.
• Del Cerro, G., "Los Hechos apócrifos de los Apóstoles: su género literario", Estudios bíblicos51 (1993), pp. 207-232.
• De Santos Otero, A., Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der altslavischen Apokryphen, 2 vols, Berlin and New York: 1978, 1981.
• Elliott, J.K., "The Apocryphal Acts", Expository Times 105 (1993-1994), pp. 71-77.
• Hägg, T., The Novel in Antiquity, Oxford: 1983.
• Gounelle, R., "Actes Apocryphes des Apôtres et Actes des Apôtres Canoniques: État de la recherche et perspectives nouvelles (I)", Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophique Religieuses 84 (2004), pp. 3-30.
• Hock, R. et al., eds, New Perspectives on Ancient Fiction and the New Testament, Atlanta: 1998.
• Jones, F. Stanley, "Principal Orientations on the Relations Between the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (Acts of Paul and Acts of John; Acts of Peter and Acts of John)", in E.H. Lovering, Jr, ed, Society of Biblical Literature 1993 Seminar Papers, Atlanta: 1993, pp. 485-505.
• Junod, E., "Créations romanesques et traditions ecclésiastiques dans les Actes apocryphes des apôtres. L'alternative fiction romanesque - vérité historique: une impasse", Augustinianum 23 (1983), pp. 271-285.
• Kampen, L. van, Apostelverhalen. Doel en compositie van de oudste apokriefe Handelingen der apostelen, dissertation, Utrecht: 1990.
• Klauck, H.-J., The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: An Introduction, Waco, Texas: 2008.
• Ljungvik, H., Studien zur Sprache der apokryphen Apostelgeschichten , Uppsala: 1926.
• Lipsius, R.A., Die apokryphen Apostelgeschichten und Apostellegenden: Ein Beitrag zur altchristlichen Literaturgeschichte, 2 vols and Supplement, Braunschweig: vol 1 1983, vol 2/1 1887, vol 2/2 1884, Ergänzungsheft 1890.
• Plümacher, E., "Apokryphe Apostelakten", in Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Supplementband XV (1978), pp. 11-70.
• Rordorf, W., "Terra Incognita. Recent Research on Christian Apocryphal Literature, Especially on Some Acts of Apostles", in idem, Lex orandi - Lex credendi, Freiburg: 1993, pp. 432-448.
• Rostalski, F., "Die Gräzität der apokryphen Apostelgeschichten", in Festschrift zur Jahrhundertfeier der Universität Breslau am 2. August 1911, Breslau: 1911, pp. 59-69.
• Söder, R., Die apokryphen Apostelgeschichten und die romanhafte Literatur der Antike, Stuttgart: 1932.
• Spittler, J., Animals in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: The Wild Kingdom of Early Christian Literature, Tübingen: 2008.
• Stoops, R.F., Jr and MacDonald, D.R., Jr, eds,  The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Intertextual Perspectives (Semeia 80), Atlanta: 1997.
• Warren, D.H., "The Greek Language of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: A Study in Style", in Bovon, ed, Apocryphal Acts , pp. 101-124.
• Zachariades-Holmberg, E., "Philological Aspects of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles", in Bovon, ed, Apocryphal Acts, pp. 125-142.