The Apocryphal Acts of John

Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
List of abbreviations......Page 11
I. The Apocryphal Acts as martyrdom texts: the case of the Acts of Andrew......Page 12
II. Miracle stories in the Acts of John......Page 26
III. Women in the Apocryphal Acts of John......Page 47
IV. Old Testament quotations in the Acts of Andrew and John......Page 67
V. Die Eucharistie in den Johannesakten......Page 82
VI. Polymorphy of Christ......Page 107
VII. A gnostic reading of the Acts of John......Page 129
VIII. Sermons of the Book of Acts and the Apocryphal Acts......Page 163
IX. The influence of the apocryphal Acts on Jerome's Lives of Saints......Page 181
X. The reception of the Acts of John in Anglo-Saxon England......Page 193
XI. Papyrus 1 from Kellis. A Greek text with affinities to the Acts of John......Page 207
Appendix......Page 227
XII. Bibliography of Acts of John......Page 241
Index of names, subjects and passages......Page 246
Papyri......Page 254