Per Erik Beskow (23 December 1926 in Stockholm[1] − 3 March 2016 in Visby)[2] was a Swedish biblical scholar, theologian, church historian, patrologist and associate professor at Lund University.
From 1989 he was an employee of the National Encyclopedia and wrote about 1,000 articles in the subject of religion and continued with updates of NE's online edition.
Artos & Norma book publisher founded 2014 Per Beskow's prize for younger academics/writers who work within the meeting between theology, society and culture.
[8] His Strange Tales (1985) is a collection of essays and researches into modern apocrypha, what Beskow later (2011) preferred to term "mystifications."
Strange Tales was one of the first books to cast doubt on Morton Smith's Secret Gospel of Mark.