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The Gospel of Peter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2009

Arthur Cushman McGiffert
Arthur Cushman McGiffert
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Professor of Church History in the Union Theological Seminary, New York City.
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It is perhaps not unfitting that some notice should be taken in our Society of Church History of what has proved to be one of the most interesting and important literary finds of recent years. I refer to the Greek MS., discovered by U. Bouriant in a tomb at Akhmîm, Egypt, in 1886, and first published in the fall of 1892. The MS. contains, as is well known, brief fragments of an early Christian Gospel and Apocalypse and two more extended fragments of the Book of Enoch. The fragment of the Apocalyse does not contain the name of its author, but toward the close of the Gospel fragment Peter is indicated as the writer of the Gospel in the sentence: “I Simon Peter and Andrew my brother took our nets and went away to the sea.” We have references in early Christian literature to a Gospel and an Apocalypse of Peter, and there can be little doubt that the fragments in question belong to those long-lost works. I shall concern myself to-day only with the Gospel fragment, which has excited chief interest among scholars and has already given rise to an extended literature.

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Papers of the American Society of Church History , Volume 6 , January 1894 , pp. 101 - 130
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Copyright © American Society for Church History 1894

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