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

JN Bremmer; István Czachesz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042913754 ISBN 13: 9789042913752

Publisher: Peeters Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

This 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 ®ApocalypseŻ: the nature of the Ethiopic pseudo-Clementine work that contained the ®ApocalypseŻ, 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 ®ApocalypseŻ in ancient Christianity. The book concludes with a study of the Gnostic ®Apocalypse of PeterŻ. As has become customary, the volume is rounded off by a bibliography and a detailed index.

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About the Author

Jan N. Bremmer is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Istvan Czachesz is Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Tromsř, Norway.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peeters Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042913754
• ISBN 13: 9789042913752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 103