Simon Peter the Apostle, Perhaps Around Ad 67 The author identified himself as “Simon Peter,” and after hesitation on the part of a few, this book was accepted as apostolic in the fourth century. See Author and Date of Writing for 1 PETER. For the past two centuries, however, almost all critical scholars have denied that Peter could be the author of this epistle. Both the style and content of this letter are noticeably different from 1 Peter. The difference in style, however, may be accounted for