Biographies
- The so-called Syriac version originally written by Peter’s disciple John Rufus in Greek dates back to the 8th century
- The so-called Georgian version originally written by Peter’s contemporary, Zacharias Rhetor, bishop of Mytilene, in Greek has preserved as a manuscript of c. 13th century.
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