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Did Peter ever go to Rome?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2005

Michael D. Goulder
Michael D. Goulder
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51 Valentine Road, Birmingham B14 7AJ, [email protected]
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Abstract

Paul and Acts suggest that after Easter Peter lived in Jerusalem and had special responsibility for the mission to Palestine. 1 Clement mentions his two-plus labours (cf. Acts 3–4, 5, 12), but not Rome and not martyrdom. It places him second of seven chronologically ordered victims of jealousy between AD 40 and 70. Asc. Is. 4:2–3 is about Nero redivivus, not the historical Nero, and has nothing to do with Peter. By AD 100 legends were forming about his sojourn in Rome (1 Peter) and his martyrdom (John 21). He probably died in his bed in Jerusalem about AD 55.

Type
Research Article
Information
Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , November 2004 , pp. 377 - 396
Copyright
© Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2004

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