Acts of Paul

Type: Writing
Subtype: Acts

Alternate Labels

  • Paul, Acts of

Composed of:

Episodes I-XIV in the mission of Paul. See especially Willy Rordorf, Pierre Cherix and Rodolphe Kasser’s translation in “Actes de Paul” in F. Bovon, P. Geoltran, Écrits apocryphes chrétiens, pp. 1117-1177.

Episodes and their principle witnesses:

  • I. Damascus: John Rylands Vellum
  • II.Antioch (of Syria?) – Coptic Heidelberg Papyrus (PHeid)
  • III. Iconium – PHeid, Greek miniscules
  • IV. Antioch (of Pisidia?) – PHeid, Greek miniscules
  • V. Myra – PHeid
  • VI. Sidon – PHeid
  • VII. Tyre – PHeid
  • VIII. Jerusalem (?) – PHeid (Smyrna is also probable, cf. Life of Polycarp, in Lightfoot part 2, vol. 3)
  • IX. Ephesus – Hamburg Papyrus bil. 1 (PHamb); Coptic Bodmer Papyrus XLI
  • X. Philippi (3 Corinthians) PHeid, Bodmer Papyrus X
  • XI. Philippi – PHeid
  • XII. Corinth – PHamb, PHeid
  • XIII. Voyage to Italy – PHamb, other papyri, PHeid
  • XIV. Martyrdom of Paul – PHamb, PHeid, Greek miniscules, Coptic

The following episodes were transmitted independently in ancient (uncials) and medieval (miniscules) manuscripts and versions:

  • Acts of Paul and Thecla (episodes III, IV) – Over 50 manuscripts in Greek, Coptic, Latin, Syriac, and Armenian versions
  • 3 Corinthians (episode X) —a.k.a. The apocryphal correspondence between Paul and the Corinthians – Greek, Bodmer Papyrus X; Coptic (Heidelberg Papyrus), Latin, Armenian
  • Martyrdom of Paul (Episode XIV) available principally in PHamb, PHeid, and miniscules

Key Passages

Reading List

Texts and Versions

  • Boese, H. “Über eine bisher unbekannte Handschrift des Briefwechsels zwischen Paulus und den Korinthern.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 44 (1952-53): 66-76.
  • Bruyne, D. de, “Nouveau fragments des Actes de Pierre, de Paul, de Jean, d’André, et de l’Apocalypse d’Élie.” Revue Bénédictine 25 (1908): 149-60.
  • ———. “Un nouveau manuscrit de la Troisième Lettre de Saint Paul aux Corinthiens.” Revue Bénédictine 25 (1908): 431-34.
  • ———. “Un quatrième manuscrit latin de la Correspondance apocryphe de S. Paul avec les Corinthiens.” Revue Bénédictine 45 (1933): 189-95.
  • Carrière, A., and S. Berger. “La Correspondance apocryphe de saint Paul et des Corinthiens.” Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie 24 (1891): 333-51.
  • ———. La Correspondance apocryphe de Saint Paul et des Corinthiens: ancienne version Latine et traduction du texte Arménien. Paris: Librairie Fiscbacher, 1891.
  • Conybeare, Frederick Cornwallis, ed. The Apology and Acts of Apollonius and other Monuments of Early Christianity. 49-88. London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: MacMillan, 1894.
  • ———. The Armenian Apology and the Acts of Apollonius and Other Monuments of Early Christianity. 2d ed with an Appendix. London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: MacMillan. 1896.
  • Crum, W. E. “New Coptic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 5 (1918-20): 501.
  • Gebhardt, Oscar von, ed. Passio S. Theclae virginis: Die lateinischen Übersetzungen der Acta Pauli et Theclae nebst Fragmenten, Auszügen und Beilagen. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 7 (Neuen Folge). Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1902.
  • Grenfell, Bernard P., and Arthur S. Hunt, eds. and trans. “VI. Acts of Paul and Thecla.” Pages 9-10 in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Part 1. London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898.
  • ———. “1602. Homily to Monks.” Pages 23-25 in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Part 13. London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1919.
  • Lipsius, Richard Adelbert, and Maximillian Bonnet. Acta apostolorum apocrypha. Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn, 1891-1903; Repr. Hildenscheim: G. Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1959.
  • Leloir, Louis. “Martyre de Paul.” Pages 77-86 in Écrits Apocryphes sur les apôtres: Traduction de l’édition Arménienne de Venise. I. Pierre, Paul, André, Jacques, Jean. Turnhout: Brepols, 1986.
  • Lewis, Agnes Smith, trans. Acta Mythologica Apostolorum: transcribed from an Arabic MS in the convent of deyr-Es-Suriani, Egypt, and from MSS in the Convent of St. Catherine, on Mount Sinai. London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1904.
  • Lewis, Agnes Smith and F. Crawford Burkitt. Pages 190-205 in Select Narratives of Holy Women: Select narratives of holy women,from the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai palimpsest as written above the old Syriac Gospels. Studia Sinaitica 9. London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1900.
  • Lightfoot, Joseph Barber. The Apostolic Fathers. 2d ed. London: MacMillan and Co., 1889 (See Life of Polycarp).
  • Schmidt, Carl. Acta Pauli aus der Heidelberger koptischen Papyrushandschrift. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1904.
  • ———. Acta Pauli aus der Heidelberger koptischen Papyrushandschrift Nr. 1: Tafelband. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1904.
  • ———. Acta Pauli aus der Heidelberger koptischen Papyrushandschrift: Zusätze zur ersten Ausgabe Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1905.
  • Schmidt, Carl, and Wilhelm Schubart. ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΠΑΥΛΟΥ: Acta Pauli nach dem Papyrus der Hamburger Staats und Universitäts-Bibliothek. Glückstadt and Hamburg: J. J. Augustin, 1936. (searchable)
  • Testuz, M. Papyrus Bodmer X-Xl. X: Correspondance apocryphe des Corinthiens et de l’apôtre Paul. Xl: Onzième Odes Salomon. XlI: Fragment d’un Hymne liturgique. Cologny and Genève: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 1959.
  • Vetter, P. “Der apokryphe dritte Korintherbrief neu übersetzt und nach seiner Entstehung untersucht.” Theologische Quartalschrift 72 (1890): 610-39.
  • ———. Der apokryphe dritte Korintherbrief. Tübingen: Universitätsfestschrift, 1894.
  • Vouaux, Léon. Les Actes de Paul et ses lettres Apocryphes: Introduction, textes, traduction et commentaire. Les Apocryphes du Nouveau Testament. Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ané, 1913.
  • Wright, William. Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: Edited from Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum and Other Libraries. 1871. Repr., Amsterdam: Philo Press, 1968.

Translations

  • Rordorf, Willy, Pierre Cherix and Rodolphe Kasser’s translation in “Actes de Paul”, in Bovon, François, and Pierre Geoltrain, eds. Écrits apocryphes chrétiens. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Index by J. Voicu. Saint Herblain: Gallimard, 1997.
  • Elliot, J. K. The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
  • Erbetta, Mario. Atti e leggende: versione e commento. Gli apocrifi del Nuovo Testamento, 2d ed. Vol. 2. Mariotti: Torini, 1978.
  • James, Montague Rhodes. The Apocryphal New Testament. Oxford: Clarendon, 1924.
  • Jensen, Anne. Thekla – die Apostelin: Ein apokrypher Text neu entdeckt: Übersetzt und kommentiert. Freiburg, Basel, and Wien: Herder, 1995.
  • Moraldi, Luigi. Pages 1061-1130 in vol. 2 of Apocrifi del Nuovo Testamento. Turin: Unione Typigrafico-editrice torinese, 1971.
  • Rinck, Wilhelm F. Das Sendschreiben der Korinther an den Apostel Paulus und das dritte Sendschreiben Pauli an die Korinther, in armenischer Übersetzung erhalten, nun verdeutscht und mit einer Einleitung über die Ächtheit begleitet. Heidelberg: Winter, 1823.
  • Schneelmelcher, Wilhelm. “The Acts of Paul.” Pages 322-90 in vol. 2 of New Testament Apocrypha. Edited by Edgar Hennecke, Wilhelm Schneemelcher, and Robert McLachlan Wilson. Trans. by Robert McLachlan Wilson. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. 1963-6.
  • ———. “The Acts of Paul,” Pages 213-70 in vol. 2 of New Testament Apocrypha. Edited by Edgar Hennecke, Wilhelm Schneemelcher, and Robert McLachlan Wilson. Trans. by R. McL. Wilson. Rev. ed. James Clarke & Co.: Cambridge; Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.
  • ———. “Paulusakten.” Pages 221-70 in vol. 2 of Neutestamentliche Apokryphen in Verbindung mit Fachgelehrten in deutscher und mit Einleitungen. Edited by Edgar Hennecke and Wilhelm Schneelmelcher, 3d ed. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1959-64.
  • ———. “Paulusakten,” Pages 193-243 in vol. 2 of Neutestamentliche Apokryphen in Verbindung mit Fachgelehrten in deutscher und mit Einleitungen.Edited by Edgar Hennecke and Wilhelm Schneelmelcher. 5th ed. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1987.

Studies

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  • ———. “Thekla.” Page 298 in Der Neue Pauly Enzyklopädie der Antike. Edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider. Alterum Vol 12/1, Tam-Vel. Stuttgart and Weimar: J. B. Metzler, 2000.
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  • ———. “Le panéyrique de Thècle, attribué à Jean Chrysostome (BHG 1720): la fin retrouvée d’un texte motile.” Analecta Bollandiana 93 (1975): 349-62.
  • Babcock, William S. Paul and the Legacies of Paul. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1990.
  • Barrier, Jeremy W. The Acts of Paul and Thecla: A Critical Introduction and Commentary. WUNT II/270. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009.
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  • ———. “Pauline Controversies in the Post-Pauline Period.” New Testament Studies 21 (1974-75): 229-45.
  • Barrier, Jeremy W. “Tertullian and the Acts of Paul or Thecla? Readership of the Ancient Novel and the Invocation of Thecline and Pauline Authority.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the SBL. Washington, D. C., November 20, 2006.
  • Bauckham, R. J. “The Acts of Paul as a Sequel to Acts.” Pages 105-52 in The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting, Edited by B. W. Winter and A. D. Clarke. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 1993.
  • Baumstark, Anton. Review of PRAXEIS PAULOU. Acta Pauli. Nach dem Papyrus der Hamburger Staats- und Universitäts-Bibliothek. Edited by Carl * Schmidt in collaboration with Wilhelm Schubart. Glückstadt and Hamburg: J. J. Augustin, 1936. Oriens Christianus 34 (1937): 122-26.
  • ———. Die Petrus- und Paulusacten in der litterarischen Ueberlieferung der syrischen Kirche. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1902.
  • Bell, H. I. Review of PRAXEIS PAULOU. Acta Pauli. Nach dem Papyrus der Hamburger Staats- und Universitäts-Bibliothek.. Edited by Carl Schmidt in collaboration with Wilhelm Schubart. Glückstadt and Hamburg: J. J. Augustin, 1936. Journal of Theological Studies 38 (1937): 189-91.
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  • Boer, Martinus C. de. “Images of Paul in the Post-Apostolic Period.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 42 (1980): 359-80.
  • J. Bollók, “The Description of Paul in the Acta Pauli,” in The Apocryphal Acts of the Paul and Thecla(Jan N. Bremmer; Studies on the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles 2; Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1996), 1–15.
  • Boughton, L. C. “From Pious Legend to Feminist Fantasy: Distinguishing Hagiographical License from Apostolic Practice in the Acts of Paul/Acts of Thecla.” Journal of Religion 71 (1991): 362-83.
  • Bovon, François. “A New Citation of the Acts of Paul in Origen,” Pages 267-70 in Studies in Early Christianity. Edited by Jör Frey. Wissenchaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 161. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 2003.
  • ———. “Une nouvelle citation des Actes de Paul chez Origène.” Apocrypha 5 (1994): 113-¬17.
  • Bovon, François, Ann Graham Brock, and Christopher R. Matthews. The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: Harvard Divinity School Studies. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999.
  • Bovon, François, Michel van Esbroeck, Richard Goulet, Eric Junod, Jean-Daniel Kaestli, Françoise Morard, Gérard Poupon, Jean-Marc Prieur, and Yves Tissot. Les Actes apocryphes des Apôtres. Christianisme et monde païen. Publication de la faculté de théologie de l’Université de Genève. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1981
  • Bowie, Ewen. “The Readership of Greek Novels in the Ancient World.” Pages 435-59 in The Novel in the Ancient World. Edited by Gareth L. Schmeling. rev. ed. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
  • Bratke, Eduard. “Ein zweiter lateinischer Text des apokryphen Briefwechsels zwischen dem Apostel Paulus und den Korinthem.” Theologische Literaturzeitung 17 (1892): 585-88.
  • Bremmer, Jan, N., ed. The Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla. Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1996.
  • ———. “Aspects of the Acts of Peter: Women, Magic, Place, and Date.” Pages 1-20 in The Apocryphal Acts of Peter: Magic, Miracles, and Gnosticism. Edited by Jan N. Bremmer. Leuven: Peeters, 1998.
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  • Brock, Ann Graham. “Genre of the Acts of Paul.” Apocrypha 5 (1994): 119-36.
  • ———. “Political Authority and Cultural Accomodation: Social Diversity in the Acts of Paul and the Acts of Peter.” Pages 145-70 in The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: Harvard Divinity School Studies. Edited by François Bovon, Ann Graham Brock, and Christopher R. Matthews. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999.
  • Burrus, Virginia. “Chastity as Autonomy: Women in the Stories of the Apocryphal Acts.” Pages 101-17 in Semeia 38: The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986.
  • ———. Chastity as Autonomy. Women in the Stories of Apocryphal Acts. Queenston, Ont.: Mellen, 1987.
  • Calef, Susan A. “Thecla ‘Tried and True’ and the Inversion of Romance,” Pages 163-85 in A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha. Edited by Amy-Jill Levine with Maria Mayo Robbins. Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings, 11. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2006.
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  • Cartlidge, David R. and J. Keith Elliott. “Paul, Thecla, and Peter.” Pages 134-71in Art and the Christian Apocrypha. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.
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  • Clemen, Carl. “Miszellen zu den Paulusakten.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 5 (1904): 228-47.
  • Corssen, Peter. “Die Urgestalt des Paulusakten.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 4 (1903): 22-47.
  • ———. Review of Acta Pauli aus der Heidelberger Koptischen papyrushandschrift Nr. 1. Leipzig: J. C. Heinrichs, 1905. Reprint, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1965. Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen 156 (1904): 702ff.
  • Crum, W. E. “Der Schluss der Paulusakten.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 6 (1905): 317-38.
  • Dagron, Gilbert in collaboration with Marie Dupré La Tour. Vie et miracles de sainte Thècle: texte grec, traduction et commentaire. Subsidia Hagiographica 62. Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes, 1978.
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  • Davies, Stevan L. The Revolt of the Widows: The Social World of the Apocryphal Acts. London: Feffer & Simons. 1980.
  • ———. “The Social World of the Apocryphal Acts.” Ph.D. diss., Temple University, 1978.
  • ———. “Women, Tertullian and the Acts of Paul.” Pages 139-43 in Semeia 38: The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986.
  • Deeleman, C. F. M., “Acta Pauli.” Theological Studies 26 (1908): 1-44.
  • ———. “Acta Pauli et Theclae.” Theological Studies 26 (1908): 273-301.
  • ———. “De apocriefe briefwisseling tusschen Paulus en de Cointhiërs.” Theological Studies 27 (1909): 37-56.
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  • Dunn, Peter W. The Acts of Paul and the Pauline Legacy in the Second Century. Ph.D. diss., University of Cambridge, 1996.
  • ———. “Women’s Liberation, the Acts of Paul, and Other Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: A Review of Some Recent Interpreters.” Apocrypha 4 (1993): 245-61.
  • ———. “Testing Pauline Pseudonymity: 3 Corinthians and the Pastoral Epistles Compared“, (pdf) Proceedings: Eastern Great Lakes and Midwest Biblical Societies (2000), 63-68.
  • ———. “The charistmatic gifts in the Acts of Paul: second century trends”, in the Conference Papers for the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Northwest College, Kirkland, 2000.
  • ———. “The influence of 1 Corinthians on the Acts of Paul“, Society of Biblical Literature 1996 Seminar Papers (Atlanta: Scholars Press), 438-454, with minor corrections.
  • ———. “Les Actes de Paul et l’héritage paulinien“, paper presented at the annual meeting of AELAC, Dole, France, 1994.
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  • ———. “V. Zu den Paulusakten,” Pages 100-06 in Die Pfaff’schen Irenäus-Fragmente als fälschungen Pfaffs Nachgewiesen. Miszellen zu den Apostolischen Vätern, den Acta Pauli, Apelles, dem Muratorischen Fragment, den pseudo¬cyprianischen Schriften und Claudianus Marmertus. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1900.
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