Inventory of references to Simon/Symeon, Peter, and Cephas.

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In regard to early christian art, Peter was often conflated with Moses.
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arnoldo wrote:In regard to early christian art, Peter was often conflated with Moses.
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Very interesting. Thanks for that. We are thoroughly accustomed to thinking of Jesus as the new Moses, but apparently Peter came to take up some of that role, as well.

Early on, it seems, Jesus himself was the sole hero of the story, as it were; but I think that, in various different ways and different contexts, the apostles themselves grew in legendary stature over the years, till (for example) they, too, are healing people at a distance or just by their shadows, as in the various Acts. A kind of hero worship can be detected, perhaps as early as 1 Corinthians 1.12, but definitely by the time James is praised beyond all sense in Thomas 12.
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These are the greater works . . .

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Good point.
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Ben C. Smith wrote: . . Early on, it seems, Jesus himself was the sole hero of the story, as it were; but I think that, in various different ways and different contexts, the apostles themselves grew in legendary stature over the years, till (for example) they, too, are healing people at a distance or just by their shadows, as in the various Acts. A kind of hero worship can be detected . .
The Emperor Julian would agree with that sentiment.
But you are so misguided that you have not even remained faithful to the teachings that were handed down to you by the apostles. And these also have been altered., so as to be worse and more impious, by those who came after. At any rate neither Paul nor Matthew nor Luke nor Mark ventured to call Jesus God. But the worthy John, since he perceived that a great number of people in many of the towns of Greece and Italy had already been infected by this disease, and because he heard, I suppose, that even the tombs of Peter and Paul were being worshipped. . .
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arnoldo wrote:
Ben C. Smith wrote: . . Early on, it seems, Jesus himself was the sole hero of the story, as it were; but I think that, in various different ways and different contexts, the apostles themselves grew in legendary stature over the years, till (for example) they, too, are healing people at a distance or just by their shadows, as in the various Acts. A kind of hero worship can be detected . .
The Emperor Julian would agree with that sentiment.
But you are so misguided that you have not even remained faithful to the teachings that were handed down to you by the apostles. And these also have been altered., so as to be worse and more impious, by those who came after. At any rate neither Paul nor Matthew nor Luke nor Mark ventured to call Jesus God. But the worthy John, since he perceived that a great number of people in many of the towns of Greece and Italy had already been infected by this disease, and because he heard, I suppose, that even the tombs of Peter and Paul were being worshipped. . .
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/julia ... 1_text.htm

And there is the Peter Ostracon (century VI or VII), which reads on the obverse (apud Ehrman): Προσκυνήσωμεν αὐτόν· τ(ὸ) εὐ(αγγέλιον) α(ὐτοῦ) μεταλάβωμεν. / "Let us reverence him; let us receive his gospel."
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Now Aristobulus had a son named John. And after they had taken up their abode in the province of Palestine, near the city of Jerusalem, the child John grew and increased in stature by the grace of the Holy Ghost. And these two brothers [Aristobolus and Barnabas] had a cousin, the wife of Simon Peter, who became the chief of the disciples of the Lord Christ; and the said John whom they had surnamed Mark, used to visit Peter, and learn the Christian doctrines from him out of the holy Scriptures.

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