E. The majority of modern scholarship has rejected the traditional authorship of many of the NT books. A good example of this trend related to Revelation might be Raymond E. Brown, a renowned Catholic Johannine scholar. The introductory volume of the Anchor Bible Commentary series says, “written by a Jewish Christian prophet named John who was neither John, son of Zebedee, nor the writer of the Johannine Gospel or of the Epistles” (p. 774). F. In many ways authorship is uncertain. There are striking
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