Acts of Andrew and Matthias

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Name (Hebrew)
מעשי של אנדרו ומתיאס
Name (Latin)
Acts of Andrew and Matthias
Name (Arabic)
أعمال أندراوس ومتياس
Other forms of name
Bible. Apocryphal books. Acts of Andrew and Matthias
Praxis tou hagiou apostolou Andreou kai Matheia eis tēn polin tōn anthrōpophagōn
Acts of Andrew and Matthew
Apocryphal books (New Testament). Acts of Andrew and Matthias
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 179492432
Wikidata: Q3374647
Library of congress: n 90647363
Sources of Information
  • "Dei︠a︡nii︠a︡ Andrei︠a︡ i Matfii︠a︡ v gorode li︠u︡doedov", 2014:page 11, etc. (Praxis tou hagiou apostolou Andreou kai Matheia eis tēn polin tōn anthrōpophagōn; extant versions exist in Greek, Syriac and Coptic)
  • MacDonald, D.R. The Acts of Andrew and The Acts of Andrew and Matthias in the city of the cannibals, c1990.
  • The Apocryphal New Testament, 1924(The Acts of Andrew and Matthias (Matthew))

Wikipedia description:

The Acts of Andrew and Matthias (Latin: Acta Andreae et Matthiae apud Anthropophagos, "The Acts of Andrew and Matthias among the Anthropophagi") is a dramatic story featuring the Apostles Andrew and Matthias. It is an episode in wider apocryphal stories of apostolic acts. Some scholars believed the episode to have originated from the lost original Acts of Andrew, but later scholarship suggests it was an independent tradition that was only later compiled together with the Acts of Andrew in some regions. The original language of the story is uncertain, but was probably Koine Greek. In the story, the apostles Andrew and Matthias (sometimes referred to as "Matthaeus") have an adventure in a city of human-eating cannibals during a journey. It is written as a thriller with various gory details; the pair witness and experience torture and threatened consumption by the cannibals. With the aid of various prayers and miracles, Matthias escapes, and Andrew eventually converts the city to Christianity. The narrative is generally understood to have no historical value, and is closer to a heroic romance than anything based on actual Christian missionary work.

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