The purpose of our communication is to point out the coherency among the Petrine tradition, i.e. between the preserved Apocalypse of Peter and the reconstructed Kerygma of Peter.
Recent research (Jones, Pouderon) demonstrates that the Pseudo-Clementine Romance consists of many different stages of compilation and identifies a kernel of preachings known as the “kerygma of Peter”.
Clement of Alexandria mentions an apocrypha entitled Kerygma of Peter. In his edition of this Kerygma, Cambe collected ten fragments.
There is no evidence that the ‘kerygma’ at the origin of the Pseudo-Clementine Romance existed independently of the Kerygma of Peter attested by the ten fragments—quite the opposite.
In a paper published in 1913, Collomb put forward the hypothesis of a literary source common to both Clement of Alexandria and Pseudo-Clementine Romance. The time has come for a new examination, all the more the knowledge of Petrine apocrypha has increased over the past few years (Kraus, Nicklas, Baldwin, Norelli).
Among this corpus, we pay special attention to the Geez Apocalypse of Peter (ed. Buchholz), which Clement of Alexandria quotes together with the Kerygma of Peter. We consider that such a connection is more than a coincidence.
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