Veronika Černušková: References to the Apocalypse of Peter in Clement of Alexandria’s Eclogae propheticae

The so called Eclogae propheticae, the last section of the fragmentary textt hat follows the seventh book of the Stromateis in the manuscript, consists of a set of exegetical notes on selected passages in the Scripture. This paper focuses on the passage Ecl. 38–50 which includes esp. references to the Psalm 17, the Book of Wisdom and also the Apocalypse of Peter. The references to the Apocalypse are analysed, their number and demarcations are questioned and individual ideas contained in their context are compared with Clement’s statements in Stromateis. On the basis of this comparison it seems probable that (most of) the references to the Apocalypse of Peter are not Clement’s direct quotations or allusions, but that they are parts of Clement’s excerpts from exegetical literature.