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When Raymond E. Brown died in 1998, less than a year after the publication of his masterpiece, An Introduction to the New Testament, he left behind a nearly completed revision of his acclaimed two-volume commentary on the Gospel of John in the Anchor Yale Bible. The manuscript, skillfully edited by Francis J. Moloney, displays the rare combination of meticulous scholarship and clear, engaging...

IS THE FOURTH GOSPEL as it now stands the work of one person?1 The solution commonly accepted before the advent of biblical criticism was that this Gospel was the work of John son of Zebedee, written shortly before his death. I shall discuss the identity of the author in the section devoted to this issue below;2 but even if we lay aside the question of identity, there are features in the Gospel that offer difficulty for any theory of
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