Resumen de The Ancient Martyrdom Accounts of Peter and Paul

Richard I. Pervo (res.)

• David Eastman has performed a valuable service for early church historians, students of hagiography, critics of early Christian literature, and those who labor in the gnarled thickets of Christian apocrypha. Eastman illustrates the rise of the governing theme, concordia apostolorum (apostolic unanimity), depicted in embraces, perpetuated post-mortem by trees growing over their respective tombs that exchanged an annual hug during the peace at the Easter vigil (e.g., the "History of the Holy Apostle My Lord Paul" 14, 198-200). If the public likes shipwrecks, crush a hull and let the critics grumble.