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The Gospel of Peter is pseudepigraphical; in other words, it bears the name of a supposed author who did not actually compose the text:
"And I with my companions was grieved; and being wounded in mind we hid ourselves:" —GoP, 7.
"But I Simon Peter and Andrew my brother took our nets and went to the sea;" — GoP, 14.
This was a common convention for lending weight to a text; thus, though the writer identifies himself as Simon Peter in the first person singular, this is improbable. But this gospel may be the oldest extant writing p ...
Though there are parallels with the three synoptic gospels, Peter does not use any of the material unique to Matthew or unique to Luke, leading to two differing conclusions.
Ron Cameron and others conclude that the author may have written independently of the synoptic Gospels and may have directly or indirectly used the Q Gospel, a hypothetical source also employed by the authors of Luke and Matthew, but applying to his borrowings a theology (including docetism) that was unacceptable to the dev ...
