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Acta Archelai

By Antonio Ferrua

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Also known as: Acts of Archelaus

ACTA ARCHELAI. - Account of two disputations held by Archelaus, bishop of Carchar in Mesopotamia, against Mani, in the time of the emperor Probus. Composed in Syriac, only a few fragments of it survive in Greek and a poor Latin version from the end of the 4th century. The author is a certain Hegemonius, who wrote at the beginning of the 4th century. The work gives us valuable information on the beginnings of Manichaeism, but it seems that the two disputations it reports are purely fictitious.

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BIBL.: St. Jerome, De viris inlustribus, 72; O. Bardenhewer, Geschichte der altherrlichen Liter., III, Munich 1912, pp. 265-69; P. de Labriolle, s. v. Archelaus de Carchara, in DHG, III, col. 1342. Text in PG 10, 1405; critical ed. by Ch. H. Beeson in CR. XVI, Leipzig 1906.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 254.

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Chicago

Ferrua, Antonio. “Acta Archelai.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 254. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/acta-archelai.

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Ferrua, Antonio. “Acta Archelai.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 254. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/acta-archelai.

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  author    = {Ferrua, Antonio},
  title     = {Acta Archelai},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {254},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/acta-archelai}
}

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