A Giant Jesus and a Walking-Talking Cross: The Fascinating Gospel of Peter
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
Chris Huntley
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
One of the most intriguing non-canonical Gospels to be discovered in modern times is the Gospel of Peter. Unlike the New Testament Gospels, which were written anonymously (only later to be given the titles Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), this Gospel actually claims to be written by an apostle, Jesus' own right-hand man, Peter.
The account we have is only fragmentary, an alternative version of Jesus' trial, death, and resurrection. And what an account it is, involving an actual record of Jesus emerging from his tomb at his resurrection, as tall as a mountain, followed, from the tomb by a walking-talking cross.
What is this fascinating account really all about, and why did someone write it, falsely claiming to be the disciple Peter?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. |
| 0:07.4 | The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar, |
| 0:13.4 | uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin. |
| 0:31.1 | Welcome back to misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. Today we are talking about the Gospel of Peter, |
| 0:36.3 | which is one of the non-canonical gospels and has some truly fascinating things inside it, |
| 0:38.0 | including a giant walking cross. |
| 0:42.6 | But I'm going to let Bart discuss that in more detail in a couple of minutes. |
| 0:45.2 | I think it's going to be a very interesting episode. |
| 0:47.2 | Bart, how's your week going? |
| 0:48.5 | Yeah, it's going well. It's kind of a nice semester for me because, you know, throughout my career at UNC since 1988, I've basically always taught a very |
| 0:57.1 | large undergraduate class with hundreds of students and also a PhD seminar with a very few |
| 1:04.6 | number of students. And I've basically given up on the big class. I've handed off to someone |
| 1:08.3 | else who really wants to do it. And I've decided |
| 1:11.8 | probably not to teach more PhD seminars. And so it means I'm basically teaching small undergraduate |
| 1:17.7 | classes and it's fantastic. This is so much fun because the students are, and the students |
| 1:23.7 | are young, you know, I couldn't believe it. What I thought about? These students were born in 2005. |
| 1:29.3 | What? For them, I am so ancient. But I really enjoying it. I think the older I get, the more I really want to kind of connect with the students, you know, instead of just like teaching them things. I really want to kind of get to know them better. And that's going really well. |
| 1:44.7 | So I'm really enjoying that. |
| 1:47.0 | How's the Acadian prep going? |
| 1:49.5 | Yeah, okay, actually. |
| 1:50.5 | I've got most of the outline together and kind of slowly going in and trying to fill in the gaps |
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