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Apocalypse of Peter
[edit]- This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.
The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 16, 2024 by Wehwalt (talk) 13:53, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
The Apocalypse of Peter is an apocryphal text of the 2nd century. It is the earliest-written extant work depicting a Christian account of heaven and hell in detail. The work describes a divine vision experienced by Peter through Jesus Christ. It delves into a vision of the afterlife (katabasis), and details both heavenly bliss for the righteous and infernal punishments for the damned. The punishments are graphically described and loosely correspond to "an eye for an eye": blasphemers are hung by their tongues; liars have their lips cut off; callous rich people are pierced by stones and are dressed in filthy rags; and so on. While the Apocalypse of Peter influenced other early Christian works, it eventually came to be considered inauthentic and was not included in the standard canon of the New Testament. Still, it influenced later works wherein the protagonist takes a tour of the realms of the afterlife, including the Apocalypse of Paul and the Divine Comedy of Dante. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): For the topic of "old religious literature", Gospel of the Ebionites on July 14, 2013. For "any religious literature", Ninety-five Theses on October 31, 2017. For "anything related to religion at all", Justus is scheduled to be on the main page on November 10, 2024 (but I don't think there's a lot of overlap here).
- Main editors: User:SnowFire
- Promoted: November 2, 2024
- Reasons for nomination: This is my first FA. 20 interwikis for 21 language versions total.
- Support as nominator. SnowFire (talk) 23:48, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
- Side comment: If space is very important, I uploaded File:Apocalypse of Peter Akhmim Plate vii (cropped).png in the hopes the Greek text in the image would be a little more legible, which could be used instead. It does make the image display more compactly but it doesn't really look much better. :( SnowFire (talk) 23:49, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
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- SnowFire, have you thought about putting this down for 18 Jan - his feast day (in the Anglican church, at least)? There's enough of a connection to claim the date... - SchroCat (talk) 05:56, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
- That's an interesting thought, but as this was not a canonical work in the Anglican tradition, I don't think there's a strong connection here. Wouldn't want to imply that this particular work is related to a feast day even if Peter himself has one. (And if anything, my one side request for this is to avoid a 3-day period around January 20, as tensions will be running high if January 2020 is any indication, and I dunno if an "Apocalypse" is the right vibe for TFA those days...) SnowFire (talk) 06:00, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
- January 2020? Not sure I recollect the drama from then... - SchroCat (talk) 13:16, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
- That's an interesting thought, but as this was not a canonical work in the Anglican tradition, I don't think there's a strong connection here. Wouldn't want to imply that this particular work is related to a feast day even if Peter himself has one. (And if anything, my one side request for this is to avoid a 3-day period around January 20, as tensions will be running high if January 2020 is any indication, and I dunno if an "Apocalypse" is the right vibe for TFA those days...) SnowFire (talk) 06:00, 4 November 2024 (UTC)