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Acts 29
Acts 29, also known as the Lost Chapter of
the Acts of the Apostles and the Sonnini
Manuscript, is a short text purporting to be
the translation of a manuscript containing
the 29th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles,
detailing Paul the Apostle’s journey to
Britannia, where he preached to a tribe of
Israelites on Mount Lud (Ludgate Hill), later
the site of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and met with
druids, who proved to him that they were
descended from Jews. Thereafter, Paul
preached in Gaul and Belgium, and then to
Switzerland (Helvetia), where a miraculous
earthquake occurred at the site of Pontius
Pilate’s supposed suicide. The canonical
book of Acts ends rather abruptly with Paul
kept under house arrest in chapter 28,
which has led to various theories about the
history of the text. The text made its first
appearance in London in 1871. According
to the editor, it was translated in the late
18th century by the French naturalist
Sonnini de Manoncourt from a Greek
manuscript discovered in the archives at
Constantinople and presented to him by
the Sultan Abdoul Achmet. However, no
trace of any such manuscript has been
found, and from internal evidence,
mainstream philology considers it to most
likely be a fraud, thus it is classed among the
pseudepigrapha.
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