Acts of Phillip

[WillowPeredhel]

Hi!

I work at a teeny tiny small-town library that's connected to a huge library consortium. We have a patron who wants to find an English translation of the Acts of Phillip. We found a French translation by a man named Bovon, but we can't seem to find any English translations. Does anyone here know if it exists? Nearly everything that has been published we can get, but we can't seem to find any.

Much thanks for any help,

Willow

[Amazing Rando]

I've never heard of the Acts of Phillip, though know you can find the apocryphal Gospel of Phillip on earlychristianwritings.com

[The Wolf]

Hi!

I work at a teeny tiny small-town library that's connected to a huge library consortium. We have a patron who wants to find an English translation of the Acts of Phillip. We found a French translation by a man named Bovon, but we can't seem to find any English translations. Does anyone here know if it exists? Nearly everything that has been published we can get, but we can't seem to find any.

Much thanks for any help,

Willow

Here is an online version:
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0818.htm

[Johnny MacManky]

Hi!

I work at a teeny tiny small-town library that's connected to a huge library consortium. We have a patron who wants to find an English translation of the Acts of Phillip. We found a French translation by a man named Bovon, but we can't seem to find any English translations. Does anyone here know if it exists? Nearly everything that has been published we can get, but we can't seem to find any.

Much thanks for any help,

Willow
Hi Willow,

Not only do I have a copy (in a book) of the Acts of Philip, but I was reading through it earlier today!

I do not know if this book is still in print:
The Apocryphal New Testament. Translated by Montague Rhodes James and published at The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, LONDON. The first edition was in 1924. My copy is dated 1966. I cannot find an ISBN number on it. If I remember correctly, I purchased it in a second hand bookstore for £2 (UK money)!

The Acts of Philip is/are contained within 'The Secondary Acts'. They "exist in Greek and Latin. The Greek are separately current: the Latin, in their most accessible form, are embodied in the Apostolic History, put together - perhaps in France - perhaps in the sixth, at least not later than the seventh century, and associated with the name of Abdias, Bishop of Babylon. . . ." (James, 438)

Concerning the Acts of Philip, which is described as a "grotesque, . . . yet . . . Catholic novel", with no "suspicion of unorthodoxy". (James, 439)

Please do not hesitate to contact me if there is anything else you'd like to know about this little book.

Hmmmm, here's an interesting little snippet. VIII. 94 has Mariamne (Mary) describing Philip as "my brother" in a context which suggests a family, not just spiritual relationship. The text also descibes Mariamne's sister as the "Martha . . . she that ministered to the multitudes and laboured much". It also states that Miriamne "made ready the bread and the salt at the breaking of the bread".

Cheers

John