The Apocalypse of Peter
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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)
PrefaceList of abbreviationsNotes on contributorsIThe apocalypse of Peter : Greek or Jewish?1IIThe Greek apocalypse of Peter15III"Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy righteousness reacheth unto the clouds"40IVFalse prophets in the apocalypse of Peter52VIs the Liar Bar Kokhba? Considering the date and provenance of the Greek (Ethiopic) apocalypse of Peter63VIThe description of paradise in the apocalypse of Peter78VIISinners and post-mortem 'baptism' in the Acherusian Lake91VIIIThe grotesque body in the apocalypse of Peter108IXDoes punishment reward the righteous? The justice pattern underlying the apocalypse of Peter127XThe old testament quotations in the apocalypse of Peter158XIThe reception of the apocalypse of Peter in ancient Christianity174XIIThe suffering Jesus and the invulnerable Christ in the gnostic apocalypse of Peter187XIIIBibliography of the apocalypse of Peter200Index of names, subjects and passages204
