The Apocalypse of Peter: 7 (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha) - Softcover

9789042913752: The Apocalypse of Peter: 7 (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042913754 ISBN 13: 9789042913752

Publisher: Peeters Publishers, 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.

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The Apocalypse of Peter is the first modern edition of studies on this intriguing Early Christian book that has mainly survived in Ethiopic. The volume initially addresses 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 work, the Old Testament quotations and the reception of the Apocalypse in ancient Christianity. The book forms part of the so-called apocryphal literature which in recent years has increasingly drawn the attention of scholars interested in early Christianity, ancient history and the ancient novel. This title has a complete bibliography and concludes with a study of the Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter.

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