The Monstrous Serpent in the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Peter Tradition
- Date of account
- Late antique text preserved in later Ethiopic witnesses
- Location
- Ethiopian Christian manuscript tradition
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Apocalypse of Peter survives partly through Ethiopic transmission and contains vivid otherworldly punishments and monstrous imagery. Serpents and beastly forms in this tradition can be examined as examples of late antique Christian imagination preserved in an African manuscript environment. The lead matters because modern monster catalogs sometimes detach such imagery from its visionary genre and historical transmission. It is not a report from Ethiopia of a physical animal. Dating the Ethiopic version, reconstructing its relationship to Greek and Coptic witnesses, and separating textual layers are central uncertainties.
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