‘Close and yet so faraway’. The Apocalypse of Peter and the Apocalypse of Paul

An exhaustive comparative assessment of the relationship between the Apocalypse of Peter and the Apocalypse of Paul would require an extensive and thick literary analysis. In the present article I try and raise some general questions on how we should think about the relationship between the two texts and thus on the meaning of this relationship for our understanding. The main result is that the Apocalypse of Paul used the apocalypse of Peter as a sort of basic scenario adapted to the new situation of late fourth-centtury Egypt, which was swept by the first Origenist controversy. of early Christian apocalypticism.