Hanns Lilje Prize 2026 Awarded to Daniel Maier

We are delighted to announce that our author Daniel Maier has been awarded the 2026 Hanns Lilje Prize by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony. The prize recognizes his habilitation thesis Paradise Lost in Transmission: The Return to Eden in the Apocalypse of Peter within Its Ethiopic and Early Christian Contexts.

The Hanns Lilje Prize is among the most distinguished awards for theological scholarship in the German-speaking world. It honors outstanding academic achievements in theological research.

We warmly congratulate Daniel Maier on this prestigious distinction and are pleased to see his research receive such significant recognition from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony.

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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.

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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.