RT Article
T1 Whence the Giant Jesus and his Talking Cross? The Resurrection in Gospel of Peter 10.39-42 as Prophetic Fulfilment of LXX Psalm 18
JF New Testament studies
VO 63
IS 3
SP 473
OP 491
A1 Galbraith, Deane
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/158197728X
AB The curious resurrection account in the Gospel of Peter (10.39-42) is not simply the author's creative innovation, but is based on a Christocentric interpretation of LXX Ps 18.1-7. The Gospel of Peter's unusual description of Jesus' exit from the tomb, whereupon he expands gigantically so that his head enters heaven (GPet 10.39-40), derives from an early Christian interpretation of LXX Ps 18.5c-7. The following conversation between God and the glorified cosmic cross (GPet 10.41-2) derives from a Christocentric interpretation of LXX Ps 18.2. In addition, the cross's verbal affirmation that it had preached to the dead (GPet 10.42) follows from a literalising yet Christocentric reading of LXX Ps 18.2b.
K1 Christocentric interpretation
K1 Gospel of Peter
K1 Jesus
K1 Psalms
K1 Cross
K1 firmament
K1 giant
K1 Resurrection
DO 10.1017/S0028688517000042