Cephas and Peter: Final Arguments, Summary, and Implications

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Cephas and Peter: Final Arguments, Summary, and Implications
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Cephas and Peter: Final Arguments, Summary, and Implications

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Show Notes

Here I give my last supporting arguments that Cephas may have been someone other than Peter, despite widespread assumptions and views that go back at least to the time of the New Testament, e.g., John 1:42, where they are explicitly identified as one and the same! But were they? It’s an intriguing question rarely asked. Below is the final bit of my article on the topic, written for a scholarly audience but obviously with a view toward what non-scholars would be interested in. At the end I provide a summary and draw out the implications. Read by Petra Ortiz

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