The full text is unavailable online, this is a rather unconventional text, even by Apocrypha standards. François Bovon and Christopher Matthews utilize manuscript evidence gathered within the last half-century to provide a new translation of the apocryphal Acts of Philip. Discovered by Bovon in 1974 at the Xenophontos monastery in Greece, the manuscript is widely known as one of the most unabridged copies of the Acts yet discovered. Bovon and Matthews' new translation incorporates this witness to the Greek text, which sheds new light on the history of earliest Christianity.
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Editio princeps of P. Duke Inv. 1377 (GA 136), a sixth-century papyrus rotulus containing Acts 4:27-31 and Acts 7:26-30, complete with data from 3-D imaging analysis, multi-spectral imaging, and Raman spectral analysis.
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In: J.N. Bremmer (ed), The Apocryphal Acts of Paul (and Thecla), Kampen: Kok Pharos Publishing House, 1996, 107-125.
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Virtutes Apostolorum, a collection of Latin apocryphal texts about the deeds and the passions of the early Christian personages have their oldest prototypes in the Greek Apocryphal Acts from the 2nd and the 3rd centuries, but contain also other texts for which we do not possess Greek originals and might have been significantly younger. By all indications, the corpus existed in a collected form by the end of the 6th century and was clearly extant by the early 9th century to which the earliest manuscript evidence can be dated. This thesis focuses on one aspect of the collection, namely the usage of the references to Scripture, in order to provide more information about the first few centuries of the existence of the collection uncharted by the extant manuscripts
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