The Resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of Peter: A Tradition-Historical Study of the Akhmîm Gospel Fragment

by Jeremiah J. Johnston

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

, 2016

Overview

All four canonical gospels identify the resurrection of Jesus, yet none detail the exact moment of its happening. The absence of this narrative detail was hotly contested in the second century, when critics derided a resurrection account without credible witness. Thus, the discovery of the Akhmim fragment at the end of the 19th century, which purports to provide exactly that detail, is a huge and surprisingly under-utilised addition to Biblical scholarship of the Apocryphal gospels. Johnston examines both the impact of this discovery on the scholarship at the time, and argues for the dating of the fragment to the second century AD. He identifies shared characteristics with other documents from this period, including a rise in anti-semitic feeling, and developments in concepts of the afterlife, and makes a claim for this fragment being the text that aided the development of these movements. The Second Century was the key time in which the non-canonical Biblical texts were established. It was also the era in which theologies which would become ‘orthodox’ in the third century were penned and defined. The significance, then, of dating the Akhmim fragment to the second century AD is huge. This work will be of great use to scholars of Second Temple Judaism, and those with an interest in the creation of the ideas that surround scholarship of the Bible.

Product Details

• Title: The Resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of Peter: A Tradition-Historical Study of the Akhmîm Gospel Fragment
• Author: Jeremiah J. Johnston
• Series: Jewish and Christian Texts in Contexts and Related Studies
• Volume: 21
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 220
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Gospel of Peter › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9780567666109, 9780567666093, 0567666107, 0567666093
• Resource ID: LLS:RSRRCTNJSSGSPTR
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-12-07T14:52:09Z

About Jeremiah J. Johnston

Jeremiah J. Johnston, PhD, Middlesex/Oxford, is a New Testament scholar and ministers internationally as president of Christian Thinkers Society. Jeremiah loves the local church, and also serves as pastor of apologetics and cultural engagement at Prestonwood Baptist Church and dean of spiritual development at Prestonwood Christian Academy.