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What can a fragment from an Egyptian burial ground reveal about a gospel left outside the New Testament?
In The Gospel According to Peter: A Study, Walter Richard Cassels examines an ancient text found at Akhmim in Upper Egypt. The fragment presents part of the trial, death and resurrection of Jesus, according to its account, in a form that differs from the four biblical gospels.
Cassels brings the discovery into conversation with older reports from church writers, including Eusebius. The fragment begins during the trial before Pilate and breaks off after the resurrection. Its incomplete pages raise a central question: did this gospel’s author know the four biblical accounts and change them?
What you’ll discover
- A find in Egypt Follow the discovery at Akhmim that gives scholars a fragment to examine.
- Traces in ancient reports Explore what church writers say about a gospel once known only through scattered remarks.
- An account with differences Examine a telling of Jesus’s trial, death and resurrection outside the four biblical gospels.
- Questions between the texts Consider whether the gospel draws on biblical accounts and changes what it finds.
- The limits of a fragment See how an incomplete text opens questions about its relationship to the biblical gospels.
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- A lost gospel comes out of Egypt
- What the ancient writers said about it
- What the fragment actually contains
- Why the study still matters
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The Gospel According to Peter: A Study
by Walter Richard Cassels · 1894
A gospel fragment from an Egyptian grave leads Cassels to examine how early Christians told the story of Jesus.
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This is a study of one ancient text, the Gospel of Peter, written by Walter Richard Cassels in the 1890s. Cassels was an English scholar who had already written a long and controversial work on the origins of the New Testament.
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A lost gospel comes out of Egypt
The story begins at Akhmim, a town in Upper Egypt. In the 1880s a French archaeological mission worked in a burial ground there. In the grave of a monk the explorers found a small book written in Greek. It held several texts, and one of them was a long fragment of a gospel that scholars soon linked with the name of Peter.
The French scholar Urbain Bouriant published the fragment in 1892. The news spread fast among theologians in Britain, Germany and France. Until then the Gospel of Peter had been only a name in old books. Now there was a real piece of it to read.
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What is the Gospel of Peter?
It is an early Christian gospel, once known only by name. A large fragment in Greek was found in Egypt in the 1880s. It tells of the trial, death and resurrection of Jesus in a form that differs from the four gospels.
Where was the Gospel of Peter found?
It was found at Akhmim in Upper Egypt, in the grave of a monk, by a French archaeological mission. The French scholar Urbain Bouriant published the Greek text in 1892.
Why is the Gospel of Peter not in the Bible?
Early church leaders did not accept it as authoritative. Serapion, a bishop of Antioch around 200, judged that parts of it carried mistaken teaching, and it was not included among the books of the New Testament.
The author
Walter Richard Cassels
1826–1907 · British writer and biblical critic
Walter Richard Cassels was a British writer who lived from 1826 to 1907. He lived in England and spent part of his working life in India. He wrote Supernatural Religion, first published anonymously in 1874, and The Gospel According to Peter: A Study, published in 1894.
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