Armin Schmitt Award for Biblical Text Research 2026

for Professor Daniel Maier (PhD)

For his habilitation thesis "Paradise Lost in Transmission: The Return to Eden in the Apocalypse of Peter within Its Ethiopic and Early Christian Contexts," our author Daniel Maier has been awarded this year's Armin Schmitt Award for Biblical Text Research.

Previously, his work was already honored with the 2026 Hanns Lilje Prize by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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Daniel Maier

Paradise Lost in Transmission

The Return to Eden in the Apocalypse of Peter within Its Ethiopic and Early Christian Contexts

2026. 295 pages.

cloth

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Daniel Maier offers the first comprehensive reconstruction and contextualisation of the earliest extant Christian vision of Paradise, as preserved in the complex transmission of the Apocalypse of Peter. He undertakes a detailed analysis of all extant witnesses, including the often-neglected Pseudo-Clementine framework of the Ethiopic manuscripts.