Letter of Peter to Philip

The Letter of Peter to Philip is a Gnostic writing. It was initially discovered as the second tractate in Codex VIII of the Nag Hammadi library. The tractate is a Coptic translation of a Greek original. An additional copy of the text, also written in Coptic, was later found in Codex Tchacos. The author of the original Greek text is unknown, but it was probably written in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

The work begins as a putative epistle to Philip the Apostle, its authorship pseudepigraphically attributed to the apostle Peter. However, this is more of a framing device, and the narrative quickly changes to a dialogue between Jesus Christ and the disciples. In practice it is more of an apocalypse, revealing secrets from Christ in the form of a dialogue recorded in a letter.