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)
Author(s): Jan N. Bremmer, Istvan Czachesz
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 103
Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
List of abbreviations......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
I. The Apocalypse of Peter: Greek or Jewish?......Page 12
II. The Greek Apocalypse of Peter......Page 26
III. "Thy mercy, 0 Lord, is in the heavens; and thy righteousness reacheth unto the clouds"......Page 51
IV. False Prophets in the Apocalypse of Peter......Page 63
V. Is the Liar Bar Kokhba? Considering the Date and Provenance of the Greek (Ethiopic) Apocalypse of Peter......Page 74
VI. The Description of Paradise in the Apocalypse of Peter......Page 89
VII. Sinners and Post-Mortem 'Baptism' in the Acherusian Lake......Page 102
VIII. The Grotesque Body in the Apocalypse of Peter......Page 119
IX. Does Punishment Reward the Righteous?......Page 138
X. The Old Testament Quotations in the Apocalypse of Peter......Page 169
XI. The Reception of the Apocalypse of Peter in Ancient Christianity......Page 185
XII. The Suffering Jesus and the Invulnerable Christ in the Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter......Page 198
XIII. Bibliography of the Apocalypse of Peter......Page 211
Index of Names, Subjects and Passages......Page 215
