testimony of the church fathers, and intuited most recently by Austin Farrer, is supported by remarkable literary and thematic patterns interweaving the two great Johannine books. The last decades have witnessed a growing interest in chiastic analysis of biblical texts. Several of these studies have dealt extensively with chiastic patterning in John’s Gospel or in the Apocalypse separately. This dissertation will present evidence that the two great texts of John are primarily connected by a chiastic-type