Encyclopedia of The Bible – Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
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Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles

PETER AND THE TWELVE APOSTLES, ACTS OF. A document in Codex VI of the Nag Hammadi library. Krause (81n.) regards it as a Gnostic text that has undergone Christian redaction.

Bibliography Doresse, Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics (1960), 235f.; Krause in Le Origini dello Gnosticismo (1967), 76f.; Text in Krause-Labib, Gnostiche and Hermetische Schriften aus Codex II und Codex VI (1971).