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"Michael E. Stone's latest book explores how the vivid and creative Armenian spiritual tradition shaped biblical stories to serve new needs. Stone edits and provides introductions, translations, and notes for Armenian manuscript texts relevant to the development and growth of biblical themes and subjects. Most of the texts translated are from previously unpublished manuscript witnesses. This fascinating corpus of texts about angels and biblical heroes includes stories of Joseph and Jonah, Nathan the prophet, and Asaph the psalmist. In addition, Stone has included documents illustrating particular points of biblical stories. This work reflects on not only how the Bible was interpreted in medieval times but also how biblical and Second Temple period apocryphal traditions from antiquity were reshaped and functioned in the communities that nurtured them. Readers and scholars will be fascinated by the dynamic and responsive forms that such traditions exhibit in Armenia culture."--Publisher's description.

Apocryphal books --- Angels --- Apocryphal books. --- Manuscripts, Armenian --- Angels. --- Heroes in the Bible. --- 22 <395.5> --- 229 --- Angelology --- Cherubim --- Cherubs (Spirits) --- Divine messengers --- Seraphim --- Spirits --- Armenian manuscripts --- Apocryphal literature --- Pseudepigrapha --- Sacred books --- 229 Apocriefen. Pseudepigrafen. Deutero-canonieke boeken --- 229 Livres apocryphes. Pseudepigraphes. Livres deuterocanoniques --- Apocriefen. Pseudepigrafen. Deutero-canonieke boeken --- Livres apocryphes. Pseudepigraphes. Livres deuterocanoniques --- 22 <395.5> Bijbel--Armenië --- 22 <395.5> La Bible. Ecriture sainte. Livres sacres--Armenië --- Bijbel--Armenië --- La Bible. Ecriture sainte. Livres sacres--Armenië --- Heroes in the Bible --- Apocryphal books - Translations into Armenian

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"After an overview of the Christian Apocrypha in Armenian, the volume starts with three essays dealing with the apostles of Armenia, Thaddaeus and Bartholomew. The cycle of Thaddaeus merges with the traditions related to Addai, King Abgar, and the old Christianity of Edessa, while the account of the discovery of the relics of Bartholomew in Armenia is connected with the bishop Marūtha of Maypherkat. The second part of the volume includes four essays on Thecla and on the different paradigms of holiness (virgin, martyr, preacher, and patroness of Nicaean orthodoxy) that she embodies in the ancient Armenian historiographical literature. The last two chapters are devoted to the Armenian translations of the Martyrdom of Andrew and the Martyrdom of Philip, which contain some Encratite passages absent from the Greek. All these essays stress the importance of the apocryphal writings as evidence for a better understanding of ancient Christianity in Armenia in its different facets and in its relations with the neighbouring Christian communities."

Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles --- 229*42 --- 22 <395.5> --- 229*42 Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Acts (Apocryphal books) --- Acts of the Apostles (Apocryphal books) --- Apocryphal books (New Testament) --- 22 <395.5> Bijbel--Armenië --- 22 <395.5> La Bible. Ecriture sainte. Livres sacres--Armenië --- Bijbel--Armenië --- La Bible. Ecriture sainte. Livres sacres--Armenië --- Thecla, --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Acts of Bartholomew. --- Acts of Thaddaeus. --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Acts of Andrew. --- Acts of Philip. --- Acta Philippi --- Actes de Philippe --- Apocryphal Acts of Philip --- Atti di Filippo --- Bible. --- Philip, Acts of --- Acts of the Apostle Andrew --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- Armenia --- Hayasdan --- Hayastan --- Aĭastan --- Haykʻ Metskʻ --- Mets Haykʻ --- Greater Armenia --- Armenia (Republic) --- Church history. --- Thècle, sainte --- Bible --- Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles. --- Apocryphal books. --- Armenia.