Michael J. Kok is a Sessional Lecturer in Theology at The King's University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is the author of The Gospel on the Margins: The Reception of Mark in the Second Century.
"In this compelling volume, Michael Kok enters a conversation
fraught with centuries of complications--the identity of John's
beloved disciple. How did it happen that the beloved disciple
became synonymous both with John, the son of Zebedee, and the
author of the fourth gospel? Kok's treatment carefully walks the
reader through the various traditions, connecting them to the
acceptance of John's Gospel within early expressions of Christian
orthodoxy. This is a substantive and worthwhile read!"
--Christopher W. Skinner, Associate Professor of New Testament and
Early Christianity at Loyola University Chicago
"In The Beloved Apostle? Michael Kok does for the question of the
authorship of the Gospel of John what he had previously done for
Mark, namely offer an impressively even-handed treatment of both
the traditions of the ancient church, and the internal evidence,
neither uncritically embracing nor uncritically dismissing the
traditional attribution to John the son of Zebedee. I only hope
that Kok will go on to provide similar treatments for Matthew and
Luke!"
--James McGrath, Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament
Language and Literature at Butler University
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