Acts of Andrew and Bartholomew

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. The work was influential on later Christian hagiographies of Saint Mercurius and Saint Christopher, as well as several medieval Islamic traditions.

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. Vol. 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 Geez). Vol. 1. pp. 156–183.

See also

• Cynocephaly
• Acts of Andrew

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. 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.