‘Apostles’ in 2 Peter 3.2: Literal Predecessors in Faith or Literary Records of their Witness?
2 Peter typically does not receive much attention within the study of early canon development. This article, however, focuses on the term ἀπόστολοι in 2 Pet. 3.2 and examines whether it points beyond historical followers of Jesus so as to implicitly include the written legacy produced by them or by...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Crisis as Catalyst: Early Christian Texts and the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2021
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2021, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 170-193 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Justinus, Saint -269
/ Peter Apostle
/ Church
/ Gospels
/ Bible. Petrusbrief 2. 3,2
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament HH Archaeology KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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| Summary: | 2 Peter typically does not receive much attention within the study of early canon development. This article, however, focuses on the term ἀπόστολοι in 2 Pet. 3.2 and examines whether it points beyond historical followers of Jesus so as to implicitly include the written legacy produced by them or by their close associates. My inquiry consists of three components: (a) a survey of Justin Martyr’s use of ἀπόστολοι in his stock phrase ‘memoirs of the apostles’ as a roughly contemporaneous analogue to 2 Peter, (b) a study of the juxtaposition ‘apostles’ and ‘prophets’ in 2 Pet. 3.2 and (c) an inquiry into 2 Peter’s literary dependence on the canonical gospels. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5294 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0142064X211024850 |