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This volume collects an array of scholarly articles from the Journal for the Study of the New Testament dealing with the Johannine writings and related issues. Separated into two parts, “The Gospel of John and its Influences” and “The Revelation of John,” the work features essays by B. Lindars (“Discourse and Tradition: The Use of the Sayings of Jesus in the Discourses of the Fourth Gospel”), R....

THE BELOVED DISCIPLE AS IDEAL AUTHOR* Richard Bauckham I This article presupposes Martin Hengel’s solution to ‘the Johannine question’ in his recent book.1 For this solution Hengel has made a very impressive case, argued with a characteristic wealth of relevant learning and a characteristically sound historical judgment. In essence the solution is that John the Elder, to whom Papias refers in the famous fragment of his prologue (ap. Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. 3.39.4), was both the beloved disciple and
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