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The Acts of Andrew (Chapters)
The arrangement of this section is: Introduction The Acts of Andrew The Acts of Andrew and Matthias; the Acts of Peter and Andrew; the ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
The Acts of Andrew and Matthias; The Acts of Peter and Andrew; The Acts of Andrew and Paul (Chapters)
The Acts of Andrew and Matthias among the Cannibals was at one time thought to have belonged to the original Acts of Andrew. This ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
The Acts of John (Chapters)
In the East the earliest unambiguous patristic attestation to the Acts of John is in Eusebius ( HE 3. 25. 6 (Schwartz GCS 9.2, ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
The Acts of Paul (Chapters)
Attestation Tertullian, de Baptismo 17 (ed. A. Reifferscheid and G. Wissowa, CSEL 20 (Prague, Vienna, Leipzig, 1890), p. 215, or ed. J. W. P. ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
The Acts of Peter (Chapters)
The figure of Peter gave rise to much apocryphal literature. The Acts and Passion of Peter appear in various forms and in various languages. ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
The Acts of Thomas (Chapters)
Ancient testimony to the existence of the Acts of Thomas is late and may be seen in Epiphanius, adv. Haer. 2. 47. 1 and ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
Agrapha (Chapters)
This inappropriate word is used conventionally to refer to sayings of Jesus not found in the canonical Gospels. Collections of agrapha have included words ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
agrapha (A-Z entry)
A Greek word (in the plural) for sayings of Jesus which are not written in the gospels or found sometimes only in inferior MSS ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Ahasuerus (A-Z entry)
Probably to be identified with Xerxes I ( 486 – 465 BCE ), who is mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus. As portrayed in ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
The Apocalypse of Abraham (Chapters)
Both the pseudo-Athanasian Synopsis and the Stichometry of Nicephorus include ‘Abraham’ in their lists of apocryphal books; but whether they are referring to our ...
Source: The Apocryphal Old Testament
The Apocalypse of Paul (Visio Pauli) (Chapters)
Paul's description of his being caught up into Paradise (2 Cor 12) gave the cue for creating this Apocalypse which includes his vision of ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
The Apocalypse of Peter (Chapters)
The existence of this apocalypse was known in antiquity. The Muratorian Fragment and the Stichometry of Nicephorus include it among their ‘disputed’ texts. The ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
The Apocalypse of Thomas (Chapters)
The Gelasian Decree condemns the Revelation of Thomas, but knowledge of the text in modern times dates only from the beginning of the twentieth ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
Apocalyptic Texts (A-Z entry)
Writings that are governed by a worldview in which the revelation of divine secrets is constitutive of salvation from an alien or threatening world ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Apocrypha (Chapters)
The Apocrypha as a Whole The existence of an ‘Apocrypha’ arises mainly from the presence in one or more of the earliest Greek biblical ...
Source: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
The Apocrypha (Chapters)
Definition and History Apocrypha means ‘[books] hidden away’ and is the name given to those books found in the Old Testament of ancient Greek ...
Source: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
Apocrypha (A-Z entry)
After the Fall of Jerusalem ( 70 CE ) the future of Judaism was maintained by rabbis of the Pharisaic tradition. They accepted as ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Apocrypha (A-Z entry)
This entry consists of two articles dealing with books or parts of books not considered canonical by every community of faith, Jewish Apocrypha and ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (A-Z entry)
The word Apocrypha means “hidden things,” but the term is used traditionally to refer to those books included in the Old Testament of the ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Arabic Infancy Gospel (Chapters)
This is another collection of material that has made use of the Protevangelium of James (= PJ) and Infancy Thomas. Chapters 1–10 are based ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
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