Category:Gospel of Peter (text)

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The Gospel of Peter (see Online Text) is an early (2nd century) Christian document, now included in collections of NT Apocrypha.

Overview

The Gospel of Peter was recovered in 1886, by the French archaeologist, Urbain Bouriant, in the modern Egyptian city of Akhmim (sixty miles north of Nag Hammadi), and first published in 1892.

Some major themes

The Gospel seems to supplement the narrative of Mark (where there was no account of the resurrection) with data from the Gospel of Matthew, reflecting the situation after the destruction of the Temple, when all the entire Jewish population of Jerusalem is collectively blamed for the death of Jesus.

“The Jews, the elders, and the priests realized how much evil they had done to themselves and began beating their breasts, saying, “Woe to us because of our sins. The judgment and the end of Jerusalem are near” (25).

Jesus is still called “the Son of God = The Messiah = the King of Israel”. There is no reference to his divinity. There is no noticeable influence from the Gospel of John.

When Jesus died “the centurion… reported: Truly he was a son of God (=a righteous man)! Pilate answered and said: I am clean of the blood of this son of God… (11:45-46).

References

• / [[]] / In: Dictionary of New Testament Background (2000 Evans & Porter), dictionary,

• / [[]] / In: The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary,

External links

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