Skip to Main Content

BIBL 364 - Acts: Simon the Magician

This research guide features resources and strategies for finding information and conducting research related to the New Testament book; Acts of the Apostles.

Ask Us

Approved Resources for Simon the Magician

Brakke, David. “Simon Magus: The First Gnostic?” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 66, no. 2 (April 2004): 321–323.

Note: This article is a book review.

Constable, Thomas L. “Notes on Acts.” Dr. Constable’s Expository Notes. (2014). http://www.soniclight.com/constable/notes/pdf/acts.pdf.

Deffinbaugh, Bob. “Simon and Simon (Acts 8:1–25).” http://bible.org/seriespage/simon-and-simon-acts-81-25.

Inglis, James. “A Voice from the Past: Simon Magus.” Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society 2, no. 1 (Spring 1989): 46–54.

Kaufman, Paul L. “Exegetical Consideration of Baptism in the New Testament.” Central Bible Quarterly 3, no. 3 (Fall 1960): 14–17.

Meeks, Wayne A. “Simon Magus in Recent Research.” Religious Studies Review 3, no. 3 (1977): 137–142.

Spät, Eszter. “The Teachers of Mani in the Acta Archelai and Simon Magus.” Vigiliae Christianae 58, no. 1 (2004): 1–23.

Strauss, Lehman. “Regeneration, Justification and Sanctification.” http://bible.org/article/regeneration-justification-and-sanctification.

Verbrugge, Verlyn D. “Delivered over to Satan.” Reformed Journal 30, no. 6 (1980): 17–19.

Yamauchi, Edwin M. “Magic in the Biblical World.” Tyndale Bulletin 34 (1983): 169–200.