TY  - BOOK
AU  - Culpepper,R.Alan
TI  - John, the son of Zebedee: the life of a legend 
T2  - Studies on personalities of the New Testament
SN  - 0800631676
AV  - BS2455 .C856  2000
U1  - 225.9/1B 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - Fortress Press.
KW  - John,
N1  - Originally published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1994; Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-352) and indexes; Introduction -- 1. Fisherman : the setting of the apostle's early life -- 2. Son of Thunder : the apostle in the synoptic gospels and Acts -- 3. Beloved disciples : the apostle in the Fourth Gospel -- 4. Elder and seer : John in the epistles and the apocalypse -- 5. Obscurity : the apostle in the second century -- 6. Saint : the eagle soars -- 7. Hero : the acts of the apostles -- 8. Icon : the apostle in art and literature -- 9. Historical figure : the apostle in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century research -- 10. Eclipse and acclaim : the apostle in recent research -- Reflections
N2  - Beginning with New Testament reports of John as fisherman and extending through the most recent Johannine scholarship, Culpepper gathers stories from church fathers, the apocryphal acts of John, medieval sources, Victorian poets, and nineteenth-and twentieth-century historians of earliest Christianity about the exploits and the death of this apostle. Culpepper's sweeping study examines a multitude of sources, many of which are widely dispersed and not previously available in English; Culpepper reveals images of John that suggest the power of historical tradition and legend. The resulting study is one of the most important sources of information about the development of Johannine legends, as well as one of the most successful efforts to overcome barriers that have traditionally separated New Testament exegesis from the study of the history of Christianity
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