About this book
Bernhard Pick’s Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas invites listeners into the colorful, often dramatic world of early Christian legend. Collected from texts dating to around the second century CE and presented as a work of Classics (antiquity), these apocryphal Acts recount the preaching, miracles, travels and martyrdoms attributed to five apostles in a vivid, romantic style.
Far from sober biography, the narratives—most likely compiled c. 150 CE—preserve the beliefs, devotional imaginations and theological concerns of pre‑Nicene Christianity. Pick’s 1909 English translations assemble the most complete versions available to him and include his contemporary introductions, giving modern audiences a window into both the texts and early 20th‑century scholarship. Readers should expect gaps and fragmentary passages (the Acts of Andrew are notably incomplete), which Pick preserves rather than smooths over, so the shape of the surviving tradition remains apparent.
Ideal for students of early Christianity, historians of religion, classicists and anyone fascinated by apocryphal literature, this audiobook offers a compelling encounter with the legends that shaped later Christian storytelling and devotional imagination.
