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In this week’s blasphemously offensive episode we lift the dress on one of the biggest secrets ever told, (if it's true) the hidden history of Simon Peter, the first Apostle and… according to some sources: synagogue spy; a hidden hand behind the establishment of Orthodox Christianity. On the free side of the show we break down who Peter is according to the "normal gospels" and by the end we will discuss who he secretly was and what he was secretly doing… supposedly. In the extended show we discuss exactly how he pulled it off and take a look at some of the evidence which helps confirm the theory. No matter what faith or worldview you have: I'm sure there’s something to offend you in here. Thank you and enjoy the show!
On the free show we discuss:
Caesar’s Messiah, Flipped Upside Down
Peter: The Man Who Changed History
The Rock, The Keys, and the First Pope
First to Confess, First to Deny
James, Peter, and Paul
Kill and Eat: The Vision on the Rooftop
The Blow-Up in Antioch
Shimon Kefa, The Spy
Peter Chamor: The Firstling Donkey
Joseph, Esther, Moses, and Yael
The Toledot Yeshu Spy Quartet
On the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
Stealing the Shem ha-Meforash
The Name Carved in Flesh
Heal a Leper, Raise the Dead
Whatever Simon Says
“Jesus Hated Israel and Their Torah”
Turn the Other Cheek as Containment
How the Calendar Got Hijacked
The Tower in the Middle of the City
Bread of Misery, Water of Affliction
The Mystery Fast of 9 Tevet
Did Peter Write Nishmat Kol Chai?
Christian Counter-Spy: Gamaliel
This week’s episode was written and researched by Luke Madrid. He’s to blame. The others read quote and provided original commentary they are responsible for.
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Sources:
Scripture and early Christian texts:
John 1:42
Galatians 2:11–14
Isaiah 1:14
Exodus 13:13
Judges 4–5 (Jael and Sisera)
Acts of Peter (late 2nd century; upside-down crucifixion request)
Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions (3rd–4th century; Gamaliel as secret Christian)
Photius, Bibliotheca (tradition that Peter and John baptized Gamaliel, Abibas, and Nicodemus)
Jewish legend: Peter as inside man
Aggadata de-Shimon Kefa (אגדתא דשמעון כיפא, “The Legend of Simon the Rock”). Printed by Adolf Jellinek in Beit ha-Midrash, vols. V–VI (Leipzig / Vienna, 1853–78). Also in J. D. Eisenstein, Otzar Midrashim.
English: Alfred Edersheim, “Appendix XVIII. Haggadah about Simeon Kepha,” in The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah.
Version 2 line used on the show: “And this Simeon Kefa is what the gentiles call Saint Peter.”
Toledot Yeshu and the spy quartet
Toledot Yeshu (“The Life Story of Jesus”), medieval Jewish counter-gospel; Peter/Shimon, Paul/Elijah, Yochanan, and Judas/Yehuda as subversive pseudo-converts.
Johann Christoph Wagenseil, Tela Ignea Satanae (Altdorf, 1681) — first printed Hebrew/Latin recension.
Johann Jacob Huldreich (Huldricus), Historia Jeschuae Nazareni (Leiden, 1705) — the recension that puts Simon’s death on 9 Tevet.
Liturgy, law, and the fight over the poems
Nishmat Kol Chai (“The breath of every living being…”) — Sabbath, festival, and Passover liturgy sometimes credited to Shimon Kefa.
Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 580:2 (R. Yosef Karo, 1565): “On the ninth of Tevet we do not know what calamity happened.”
Orchot Chaim: “On the ninth the sages did not write what happened, and it remains a secret.”
Machzor Vitry: rejects the claim that “that scoundrel Simon Peter the ass” wrote Nishmat “when he was on the rock.”
Rashi circle: “the revolting Shimon peter chamor… the error of Rome.”
R. Baruch ben Yehoshua Yechezkel Feivel Frankel-Teomim (1760–1828): manuscript note that Shimon HaKalphus died on 9 Tevet and that a yearly fast was set in Jerusalem.
Modern scholarship and the Roman-psyop foil
Joseph Atwill, Caesar’s Messiah (2005).
Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War (the campaign Atwill maps onto the Gospels).
John G. Gager, “Simon Peter: Founder of Christianity or Saviour of Israel?” in Peter Schäfer, Michael Meerson, and Yaacov Deutsch, eds., Toledot Yeshu: The Life Story of Jesus Revisited (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011).
John G. Gager, Who Made Early Christianity?: The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul (Columbia University Press, 2015) — Paul in the same “inside man” dossier.
Maimonides / Iberian conversos — mentioned as the later historical type, not as a single cited book.
Quick reference pages used while writing the notes
Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Saint Peter the Apostle.”
Wikipedia, “Saint Peter”; “Jael”; “Toledot Yeshu.”
Sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, “Aggada of Shimon Kippa,” Versions 1 and 2.
Kathy Howard, “7 Things You Might Not Know About the Apostle Peter.”
Ligonier, “The Significance of Peter.”
Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, “What Is Peter’s Role in the Formation of the Church?”
Lifeway Women, “From Fisherman to Faithful Witness: A Biography of the Apostle Peter.”
