GOSPEL OF PETER

The link below is to a translation of the Gospel of Peter, Peter the rock the Catholic Church was built on. But it is interesting to note that Peter’s name infact means ‘rock’. This is the gosple that is the core of the Passion of Christ, (passion in the early meaning of pain and suffering, you know ‘pathos’). The Mel Gibson movie out is very representitive to this mode of salvation. it is enteresting and short

with love,

kit

 
http://wesley.nnu.edu/noncanon/gospels/gospete.htm
GOSPEL OF PETER

From-The Apocryphal New Testament
M.R. James-Translation and Notes
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924

Introduction

The early testimonies about this book have been set forth already. The present fragment was discovered in 1884 in a tomb at Akhmimin Egypt. The manuscript in which it is a little book containing a portion of the Book of Enoch in Greek, this fragment on the Passion and another, a description of Heaven and Hell, which is either (as I now think) a second fragment of the Gospel, or a piece of the Apocalypse of Peter. It will be given later under that head.

We have seen that the Gospel of Peter is quoted by writers of the latter end of the second century. It has been contended that Justin Martyr also used it soon after the middle of that century, but the evidence is not demonstrative. I believe it is not safe to date the book much earlier than A. D. 150.

It uses all four canonical Gospels, and is the earliest uncanonical account of the Passion that exists. It is not wholly orthodox: for it throws doubt on the reality of the Lord’s sufferings, and by consequence upon the reality of his human body. In other words it is, as Serapion of Antioch indicated, of a Docetic character.

Another characteristic of it is its extremely anti-Jewish attitude. Blame is thrown on the Jews wherever possible, and Pilate is white-washed .

In this case I give, in Roman and Arabic figures respectively, a double division into sections and verses. The first is that of Armitage Robinson, the second that of Harnack.