The First Epistle of Peter Author:Dr. Scott Hahn SCOTT HAHN INVITES YOU TO STUDY THE WRITINGS OF THE GALILEAN FISHERMAN, SHIMION--WHOM CHRIST NAMED KEPA, THE ROCK. He was the man whom Christ chose to lead His beloved disciples after His death--a fiery Galilean fisherman, a natural leader, strong and tough, and a devout Jew. Yet he abandoned his friend and Lord, running away in terror when qu... more »estioned about his knowledge of Jesus. And it took an upper-class Jewish-Roman intellectual named Paul, a former enemy of Christianity, to help him see that Christ meant His message of salvation to be spread to the ends of the earth. Who was this mysterious man, known in his own language as Shimeon but renamed Kepa, or The Rock, by Christ? In a new Bible series by Scott Hahn, you are invited to take a closer look at this central Christian figure through careful study of the New Testament letter known as First Peter.« less