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Gospel of Peter

Every image on the lecture page, with its source, license, and the reason it was chosen. The material is public-domain and freely-licensed work from Wikimedia Commons: the surviving page of the Akhmim fragment itself, the Egyptian ground it came out of, and the ways later Christian art pictured the scene this gospel claims to describe from the inside. Creative Commons works are attributed below. All images have been resized for the web.

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The Akhmim fragment of the Gospel of Peter, in Greek (facsimile plate from H. B. Swete, “The Akhmim Fragment of the Apocryphal Gospel of St Peter”) akhmim-fragment.jpg The Akhmim fragment of the Gospel of Peter, in Greek (facsimile plate from H. B. Swete, “The Akhmim Fragment of the Apocryphal Gospel of St Peter”) Henry Barclay Swete (1835 to 1917) 1893 Source ↗ Public domain Hero ornament · Hero artifact · Origin section figure · Question 01 medallion The text at the centre of the lecture, as it survives: a Greek codex leaf pulled out of a grave at Akhmim in Upper Egypt and published to the world seven years later.
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ piero-resurrection.jpg The Resurrection of Jesus Christ Piero della Francesca between 1463 and 1465 Source ↗ Public domain Hero background · Question 04 medallion Christ stepping out of the tomb over a sleeping guard, banner-cross in hand: the closest any famous painting comes to the scene this gospel narrates and the canonical four do not.
The Anastasis fresco, Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, Istanbul chora-anastasis.jpg The Anastasis fresco, Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, Istanbul Photo: Till Niermann Fresco c. 1320 (photographed 2014) Source ↗ CC BY-SA 3.0 Hero ornament · “Prepare to Rethink” backdrop · Scroll panel The resurrection drawn as a physical event you could stand and watch, with Christ hauling the dead up out of their coffins: the same instinct the Gospel of Peter follows, centuries earlier.
The Resurrection, from the Isenheim Altarpiece grunewald-resurrection.jpg The Resurrection, from the Isenheim Altarpiece Matthias Grünewald (photo: Gleb Simonov) 1512 to 1516 Source ↗ Public domain Stats backdrop · Question 06 medallion A risen body rendered as pure light rather than flesh, which is exactly the ambiguity the docetism charge against this gospel turns on.
Holy Women at Christ’s Tomb holy-women-tomb.jpg Holy Women at Christ’s Tomb Annibale Carracci 1590s Source ↗ Public domain Question 03 medallion The canonical scene for comparison: the women arriving to find the tomb already open and already empty, which is where the four gospels begin and this one does not.
Apostle Saint Peter saint-peter.jpg Apostle Saint Peter El Greco between 1610 and 1614 Source ↗ Public domain Hero ornament · “Included with Enrollment” backdrop The disciple this gospel claims as its author, writing in the first person. Whether that claim is worth anything is one of the questions the lecture asks.
The Crucifixion of Jesus, mosaic at the Monastery of Hosios Loukas, Greece crucifixion-hosios-loukas.jpg The Crucifixion of Jesus, mosaic at the Monastery of Hosios Loukas, Greece Photo: Michel Bakni Mosaic c. 1100 Source ↗ Public domain Question 05 medallion The execution as Byzantine Christians fixed it in gold. The Gospel of Peter tells the same scene with a different cast, different words from the cross, and a different verdict on who is to blame.
The River Nile near Aswan. From the journey to Egypt nile-aswan.jpg The River Nile near Aswan. From the journey to Egypt Jan Ciągliński 1903 Source ↗ Public domain At-a-Glance backdrop The Upper Egyptian Nile, painted within a generation of the Akhmim find: the river whose east bank gave the fragment back.
The open-air museum at Akhmim, Egypt (ancient Panopolis) akhmim-museum.jpg The open-air museum at Akhmim, Egypt (ancient Panopolis) Photo: Roland Unger 2005 Source ↗ CC BY-SA 3.0 Instructor backdrop Akhmim itself, the town in Upper Egypt where a French archaeological mission opened a grave in 1886 and found the codex inside it.
Codex Sinaiticus (the Greek Bible) codex-sinaiticus.jpg Codex Sinaiticus (the Greek Bible) Photo: PotatoCow25 4th century CE (photographed 2026) Source ↗ CC0 Question 02 medallion · FAQ backdrop One of the oldest surviving copies of the Christian Bible, and a working picture of the collection this gospel was kept out of.

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