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"R. Jacob Tam also expressed his belief that Peter (Simon Caiaphas), the first Pope, was a devout and learned Jew, who dedicated his life to guiding Christians along the proper path. R. Tam further maintained that Peter was the author of the Nishmat prayer recited on Sabbaths and Festivals, as well as a prayer for Yom Kippur (Mahzor Vitry, edited by S.Hurwitz, 1923, p.285 note 5 and p. 362 note 5. CF. J. Eisenstein's articles on Simon Caiaphas in Otzar Israel and Otzar Midrashim). It may also be noted that R. Judah He-Hasid, leader of the twelfth century Hasidei Ashkenaz in Germany, also referred to Peter as a Pious man ("zaddik"; Sefer Hasidim, no. 191)."

The Toledoth Y.S.W also praises Peter as a greatly learned and pious man dedicated to saving Israelites from heresy. Peter's mission to the Hellenes was headed by Gamaliel's student Saul of Tarsus whose efforts in Peter's direction were complimented by R. Jacob Emden in the Seder Olam Rabbah Vezuta.

Petrine Perspective

Arriving in Europe with hordes from the east and claiming descent from The House of Imran, the Desposyni of Ana and her brother Zechariah's Zadokite Kohen family, the original central European "blue bloods" appointed by Charlemagne, considered themselves to have a divine right as true Koenigs in the Church. They maintained close cultural ties with the Fatimids whom they also regarded tentatively as Nizariun but viewed the legacy of early Byzantine influences in the Church as anti-Christian and continually sought to reform the mistakes made by Pope Sylvester. In the latter half of the 11th century, having succeeded in influencing the initiation of a reform in the western Church, they initiated the crusades to stem the spread of unpetrine influence in the Holy Lands. There was an historical friction between Levi's "blue-bloods" and Judah's House of David, since the former promoted the idea that the prophesies concerning the House of David had been fulfilled in a spiritual sense, while the latter have always continued to expect a more literal fulfilment. Despite this friction, a great deal of respect existed between the two communities, and Rashi's Tosafist school in particular was accepted as generally authoritative with regards to explaining the Scriptures and maintaining accurate records concerning Petrine tradition.

Among Petrines, the Quran is recognisable as a decisive manifestation of the othrwise ethereal Petrine Lectionary in a strike against the spread of Mandaism in particular but also various other dark-age dogmas among Arabic pagans. Similarly, many of the early "Gnostic" documents, like the coptic letter of Peter to Philip, could be better understood as attempts written in Gnostic terms to bring the fore-runners of the Mandaeans back to the straight path.

The Abbeys represent the Petrine Magisterium, while the Noble houses with their heraldry and maintaining the chivalric Nomos represent the descendants of the 36 pairs of Nizariun sent out to the 70 nations of the world promoting the doctrine of accommodation (which was eventually adopted in the 7th century by Pope Gregory the Great) and appointed bishops from these families over the Abbeys in their realms. Only the House of Imran wearing Ephods as crowns were ever regarded as the rightful Koenigs among them.