Gospel of Peter Manuscript Images Online
July 14th, 2009 by Andrew Bernhard under Miscellaneous. No Comments.
Following my recent posts about the new articles on Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 4009 and the unveiling of Codex Sinaiticus online, I thought it would be fitting to announce that images of all the possible manuscripts of the Gospel of Peter are now available in the Other Early Christian Gospels Resource Center.
I have posted scanned images of the first ten pages of the Akhmim Fragment (which nobody disputes preserve a part of the Gospel of Peter) that were originally published in:
Gebhardt, Oscar von. Das Evangelium und die Apokalypse des Petrus. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1893.
I have also posted a scanned image of the Faiyum Fragment (which Dieter Luehrman tentatively proposed was a part of the Gospel of Peter) that was originally published in:
Bickell, G. “Das nichtkanonische Evangelium-Fragment.” In Mittheilungen aus der Sammlung der Papyrus Erherzog Rainer I, edited by Joseph Karabacek, 53-61. Vienna: Verlag der K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1887.
It is interesting to note the unusual abbreviation of Peter’s name on the manuscript, and how it has been colored over (highlighted?) in red. The transcription below in the manuscript image is also from the same publication.
All of the images of the two remaining possible fragments of the Gospel of Peter (Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2949 and Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 4009) are linked from the papyrology website at Oxford. I am pleased to see that the work of making digital images of the Oxyrhycnhus papyri available online is continuing vigorously at my alma mater.
