THE LIFE AND WITNESS OF PETER
By Larry R. Helyer
Apollos (IVP). 329 pages. £16.99
ISBN 978 1 844 746 002
Written out of the IVP Academic stable, you expect this to be a scholarly work and it does not disappoint.
The author has brought together the wide range of biblical material where Peter, fisherman, disciple of Jesus and apostle, has left his weighty signature. Probably, after Paul and John, Peter has contributed most to the New Testament corpus. Mark’s Gospel, if actually Peter’s voice, his letters and the Acts content, is summarised and delivered in both an easy-to-read narrative style, but also with a rigorous engagement with primary and secondary sources, textual questions and contemporary scholarship.
