Table of Contents

Introduction
Section 1: The Identity of the Evangelist
Chapter 1: Papias’s Two Johns
Chapter 2: The Traditions of the Death of John
Chapter 3: John the Evangelist in the Earliest Sources
Section 2: Conflated Figures, Revised Narratives
Chapter 4: Hippolytus and the Claudian Exile Tradition
Chapter 5: Hippolytus, Gaius, and the Alogoi
Chapter 6: Eusebius and the Domitianic Exile Tradition
Section 3: Towards a Reconstruction of the Earliest Tradition
Chapter 7: The Tradition of John’s Neronian Exile
Chapter 8: Papian Traditions on the Gospel of John
Chapter 9: John on the Τάξις of the Gospels
Chapter 10: Papias and the Publication of John’s Gospel
Conclusion

About the Author

Dean Furlong is a research fellow with the Centre for Contextual Biblical Interpretation (CCBI).

Reviews

This is an excellent examination of the historical sources regarding the John who wrote the Gospel, and the various traditions concerning his identity, his death, and his place amongst the Evangelists. This will no doubt become a standard reference point for many years to come.
*Fr John Behr, St Vladimir’s Seminary, New York, and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam*