Scriptural Discoveries

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 100, 11 February 1893, Page 4

Scriptural Discoveries

«. The London correspondent of the New York Times records the 'foci that very recently Egyptology has taken a new and curious turn. The centre of interest in excavations has shifted abruptly from the ancient Pharaohs to discoveries of early Christian documents being made in TJpjier Egypt, many of which reveal things supposed to have been irretrievably lost in the Moslem Conquest. In the Prnssishe Jabrbuch for January, Professor Harnack .prints an exhaustive account of three of these, the most striking of which will be the "Gospel According to St ! Peter," a narrative which the Syrian churches were using in the second, century as inspired thought, but whioh was afterwards condemned as Gnostic, It, was, ascribed to St Peter, as the other Gospels were imputed to his associates John and Matthew. Another is the "Kevelation of Peter" much resembling the Apocalypse, which was also regarded as Scriptural in the seoond ceatury, and quoted by Clement of Alexandria. These hoary monuments of the earliest Christian period, rejected whe,n the Scripture canon was formed and then lost, create the liveliest interest among scholars and historians.