The Apocalypse of Peter (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha) [Paperback]

J.N. Bremmer (Editor), I. Czachesz (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 9042913754 | ISBN-13: 978-9042913752 | Publication Date: December 1, 2003

The Apocalypse of Peter is the first modern collection of studies on this intriguing Early Christian book, that has mainly survived in Ethiopic. The volume starts with a short survey of the Forschungsgeschichte and a discussion of the old question regarding its eventual inspiration: Greek or Jewish. It is followed by a new look at the circumstances of its finding, the composition of the codex and its character, and also by a new edition of the Bodleian and Rainer fragments. The major part of the book studies various aspects and passages of the Apocalypse: the nature of the Ethiopic pseudo-Clementine work that contained the Apocalypse, false prophets, the Bar Kokhba hypothesis, Paradise, the post-mortem 'baptism' of sinners, the grotesque body, the pattern of justice underlying our work, the Old Testament quotations and the reception of the Apocalypse in ancient Christianity. The book concludes with a study of the Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter. As has become customary, the volume is rounded off by a bibliography and a detailed index (Peeters 2003)

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• Paperback: 103 pages
• Publisher: Peeters Publishers (December 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9042913754
• ISBN-13: 978-9042913752
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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A wonderful critique of a part of world, and religion history that few care to know of and could not handle. The issue is the lack of intellectual emotional maturity.