The Twelve Apostles

Donald Donato and I have recently agreed to do a little exegetical work on the Twelve Apostles – trying to draw them into a Gnostic frame, so to speak. I’m terrified, Donald is a much better educated gentleman than me, so I’m certain to look like an amateur, but one does what one can…

There are variations in who is included depending slightly on your tradition and the names for various individuals vary a little too. For our purposes we’ve chosen a list and divided them up between us.

• Andrew
• Bartholomew
• James, son of Zebedee
• James the Less
• John
• Judas Iscariot
• Matthew
• Philip
• Simon Peter
• Simon Zealot
• Thaddeus
• Thomas

I do Andrew — Judas Iscariot, Donald does Matthew — Thomas. I’ll edit this page to make an index to each of our entries.

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