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Peter's Letter

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The author of this letter introduced himself as “Semeon Peter, slave and apostle of Jesus Christ 1” (2 Pet.1:1)2. Peter used a Hebraic form of his name which is never used concerning him in the Apostolic Fathers or psuedepigraphic Petrine literature, it only occurs in Acts 15:143, where it clearly points to Peter as an apostle of Jesus Christ, one of the twelve. “An imitator of Peter… would hardly use this spelling; especially since he was trying to link his letter with 1 Peter where the simple Πέτρος was used.4 Peter also mentions that he would die soon, just as the Lord revealed to him (1:14), this can be linked to John 21:18-19, but it does not means that Peter was depending on John.5 “If Peter actually heard Jesus prophesy his death, Peter
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