The Acts of Paul is one of the major works from the New Testament apocrypha, an approximate date given to the Acts of Paul is 160 C.E. The Acts were considered orthodox by Hippolytus, but were eventually regarded as heretical when the Manichaeans started using the texts. The discovery of a Coptic version of the text, demonstrated that the text was composed of * the Acts of Paul and Thecla * the Epistle of the Corinthians to Paul * the Third Epistle to the Corinthians * the Martyrdom of Paul - his death at the hand of Nero