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Note publique d'information : The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles, discovered along with 46 other tracts at
Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945, is still very much in its infancy of scholarly analysis.
Until now the approach to this text has been primarily that of introductions to the
text. Most of these introductions and several of the other studies have focused upon
dividing and describing the text in light of its most obvious problem--the problem
of peculiar voice shifts. The narrative voice of the text begins in the first person
plural, then shifts to the first person singular. After a peculiar shift to the third
person, the text successively shifts back to the first person plural then to the first
person singular finally ending in the third person. The first to discuss this problem
was Martin Krause, whose foundational 1972 article was the impetus for such scholars
as Douglas M. Parrott, Hans-Martin Schenke and Stephen J. Patterson. These scholars
presented differing solutions to the questions of form and source posed by these voice
changes. The approaches used by these writers demonstrated that the narrative voice
changes and textual aporias should be taken seriously as possible indicators of textual
seams and as evidence of a redactional hand at work
Note publique d'information : Unfortunately, because of the danger that voice shifts and aporias can be given too
much weight, there is a need to reevaluate these voice shifts in light of both the
author's use of literary technique and the overall movement of the text. Some scholars
such as Antoinne Guillamont, Carl A. Keller and F. Salvoni have tried to interpret
the allegorical referents of the text. While most commentators have acknowledged the
allegorical character of the text, these scholars have actually attempted to identify
the symbolism. However, these attempts have been only superficial and the results
gleaned from source and genre criticism have not been married to an allegorical interpretation
of the text and its meaning for its audience. This dissertation will attempt to accomplish
this task and explore what clues the text as a whole reveals about the community that
produced it.
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