Apocrypha · 1994 · 60 citations · 0 references
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The Apocalypse of Peter deserves to be rescued from the extreme scholarly neglect it has suffered. This is not because it is a work of any great literary or theological merit. But, of course, texts of historical importance for our understanding of the history of religion frequently have no great literary or theological merit.