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By Jan N. Bremmer, Istvan Czachesz

ISBN-10: 9042913754

ISBN-13: 9789042913752

The Apocalypse of Peter is the 1st sleek choice of stories in this interesting Early Christian booklet, that has frequently survived in Ethiopic. the quantity begins with a brief survey of the Forschungsgeschichte and a dialogue of the outdated query relating to its eventual proposal: Greek or Jewish. it truly is via a brand new examine the situations of its discovering, the composition of the codex and its personality, and likewise through a brand new variation of the Bodleian and Rainer fragments. the foremost a part of the publication experiences a number of points and passages of the Apocalypse: the character of the Ethiopic pseudo-Clementine paintings that contained the Apocalypse, fake prophets, the Bar Kokhba speculation, Paradise, the autopsy 'baptism' of sinners, the ugly physique, the development of justice underlying our paintings, the previous testomony quotations and the reception of the Apocalypse in old Christianity. The booklet concludes with a research of the Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter. As has turn into frequent, the amount is rounded off through a bibliography and a close index (Peeters 2003)

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The three quires with 1 Enoch and the leaf of the Marordon? of Julia17 of Aizazarbus are clearly incomplete and were certainly not written for the present codex. The first two quires, however, although they do not give a complete text, were nevertheless regarded as selections complete in themselves. Were they specifically written for the codex or were they available before it was put together just as the leftovers of 1 Enoch and the M a r ~ r d o mo f Julian of Anazarbus? If they were written specifically for this codex, they were presumably copied from an exemplar in a different size, which did not fit the codex, and perhaps also on different material (papyrus).

2, verso 1-2: James's correction of Wessely's reading is confirmed by the MS. What Wessely read as ox is nothing but no shining through from the back (f. 2, recto 1). H. Harrauer confirmed the existence of delta, which is visible in ultraviolet light. F. 2, verso 6-8: Not: 'the son who is in Hades', which the Greek would allow, but 'the son of the one who is in Hades'. The emperor Nero is intended: Peter's execution was the beginning of the end for Nero. Apperzdix: Photos of the Bodleiart Fragmertt Bodleian Library Ms.

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