This is the first translation of the twelfth century Armenian commentary on the death of John the Evangelist as found in the Acts of John. The last section of the apocryphal life of the Evangelist became detached from the whole, and circulated widely in the churches of east and west. The Armenian version was included in service books, Bibles, and collections of saints lives. Yet no medieval commentary on that brief text is known in any other language. Ners s of Lambron 1153-1198], Archbishop of Tarsus, was a prolific author and an influential player in the ecclesiastical politics of...
This is the first translation of the twelfth century Armenian commentary on the death of John the Evangelist as found in the Acts of John. The ...
