The Latin title, Epistula Apostolorum, was suggested by Carl Schmidt, the first editor of this previously unknown work. In chapter 2 eleven apostles are indeed named as the collective authors of this work, addressed to the entire worldwide Christian community, but its contents do not correspond to the apostolic or pseudo-apostolic letters of the New Testament. The major part of the Epistula records a dialogue supposed to have taken place on Easter morning in which Jesus answers questions put to him by his disciples in preparation for their future mission. The dialogue occurs within a narrative frame that includes a collection of miracle stories from Jesus’s childhood and ministry (chapters 4–5), a version of the empty tomb story together with an appearance to female and male disciples (chapters 9–12), and a concluding ascension narrative unrelated to the more familiar version in Acts (chapter 51). In many respects this text is more like a gospel than an epistle.