The Apocalypse of Peter: The Banned Vision of Heaven and Hell
The Apocalypse of Peter is an early Christian apocryphal work, probably composed in Greek during the first half of the second century CE. Written under Peter’s authority rather than generally accepted as the historical apostle’s own work, it presents Jesus revealing resurrection, judgment, paradise, and differentiated punishments for the dead.
The text stood unexpectedly close to the boundary of scripture. Clement of Alexandria knew material from it, and a debated reading of the damaged Muratorian Fragment appears to place it alongside the Apocalypse of John while noting resistance to its…
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