Date of composition

• Late 100s or early 200s.
• Part of it is mentioned in the Manichean Psalm-book of the late 200s. To have reached this level of popularity, parts of the Acts of Andrew would have been written much earlier, and the book compiled in the 200s.
• [Manichean Psalm-book: A Manichaean book written in Coptic and compiled in the late 200s/early 300s. Manichaeism was a religion founded by Mani (d. 274). He accepted Jesus as a prophet and not the Son of God, and some Christian books circulated amongst the Manicheans. That is how some of the NT Apocrypha found their way into the Manichean Psalm-book. None of the 27 NT books are in the Manichean Psalm-book.]

Type of Apocrypha (heretical or in error (made up))

• Error (because it highlights the importance of remaining celibate)

Length

• 26 pages double-spaced pages. The writing is a compilation of different sources.

Summary

• Andrew traveled from place to place, all the while healing many, casting out many demons, and raising many people from the dead. He also calmed a storm, walked unharmed past men sent to arrest him, and animals sent to kill him in the stadium refused to touch him but killed others instead. The Roman proconsul imprisoned Andrew, then had him scourged (whipped) and crucified by the sea.

Noteworthy from the book

1. Andrew spoke powerfully against marriage and abstaining from sex.
2. Andrew was condemned to die crucified, but without his feet being bound to the cross so that he would suffer more.
3. Before being crucified, Andrew praised the cross upon which he would die.
4. Andrew preached from the cross for a night and a day.
5. The proconsul changed his mind and wanted to take Andrew off the cross, but Andrew rebuked him and remained.