Acts of Andrew and Bartholomew
Appearance
The Acts of Andrew and Bartholomew is a 5th-century Nestorian text originally 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 several medieval Islamic traditions.[1]
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Published editions
[edit]English
[edit]- 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. Vol. 2. p. 183ff. Translated from Ethiopic.
Ethiopic
[edit]- 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 Geez). Vol. 1. pp. 156–183.
See also
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b White 1991, p. 25f.
- ^ Frakes & Digeser 2006, p. 112.
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Friedman, John Block (2000). The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought. Syracuse University Press. pp. 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.