Lombatti, a fine Italian scholar, digs into the Peter myths which the church created to demonstrate its own legitimacy.
http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/2013/12...8019.shtml
http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/2013/12...8019.shtml
Quote:In fact, not a single New Testament text refers to Peter as bishop of Rome. Not even an extrabiblical contemporary work. We must rely instead on later traditions. The same traditions which tell the story of Mary Magdalene arriving in southern France or of Joseph or Arimathea bringing the Holy Grail to Glastonbury or even of the apostle James’ bones being found in Compostela, Spain, despite his having been beheaded in Jerusalem!