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The Resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of Peter: A Tradition-Historical Study of the Akhmîm Gospel Fragment
Dr Jeremiah J. Johnston
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Hardback. Series: Jewish and Christian Text. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRCF2; HRCG3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Jewish and Christian Text
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780567666109
SKU
V9780567666109
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About Dr Jeremiah J. Johnston
Jeremiah J. Johnston is Associate Professor of Early Christianity at Houston Baptist University, USA.
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Provides a fresh assessment of the fragment's history and the value for studying a crucial point in Christianity's evolution.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Journal for the Study of the New Testament