The Apocalypse of Peter

by Jan N. Bremmer

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 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.

103 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2003

About the author

Prof. em. Dr. Jan Nicolaas Bremmer (Ph.D., Free University Amsterdam, 1979) is Professor emeritus for Religious Studies in the Faculty for Religious Studies and Theology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where he twice held the post of Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies.

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