The Apocalypse of Peter

<<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.