1st Edition
The Enigma of the Fourth Gospel Its Author and Its Writer
First Published in 1938, The Enigma of the Fourth Gospel by Robert Eisler presents a comprehensive overview of the Fourth gospel, its author, and its writer. In forty-one chapters, it discusses themes like an insoluble enigma; the preface to the Christian reader; the longer Anti-Marcionite preface to the Fourth Gospel; the Greek and the Latin texts of the Anti-Marcionite prologue to Luke; the two traditions about the evangelist John; John killed by King Herod in Jewish tradition; the two tombs of St. John in Ephesus; the confusion of the two Johns; who wrote the Gospel dictated by John; the date of the Fourth Gospel and of the first Epistle of John; traces of Marcionism in the Gospel of John; John the evangelist and the Fourth evangelist identified. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of Christianity and religion.
Preface 1. An Insoluble Enigma? 2. The ‘Preface to the Christian Reader’ and the Ancient Bio-Bibliographical Librarian’s Notes 3. The Earliest Gospel Prefaces and Summaries Discovered by Dom De Bruyne 4. Breves Fortunatiani 5. Fortunatian’s Sources 6. The Longer Anti-Marcionite Preface to the Fourth Gospel 7. The Greek and the Latin Texts of the Anti-Marcionite Prologue to Luke 8. Heretic and Catholic Second-Century Testimonies Concerning John of Ephesus 9. The Leucian ‘Acts of John’ on the Beloved Disciple of Jesus 10. Bishop Polycrates of Ephesus on the Ephesian John 11. ‘John of the High-Priestly Kin’ In Acts Iv.6,…12. Pseudo- Hilarious Africanus on St. John…13. The Two Traditions about the Evangelist John 14. The Martyrdom of the Two Sons of Zebedee …15. Literary Testimonies for the Martyrdom of the Zebediad John 16. John Killed by King Herod in Jewish Tradition 17. The Original Text of Acts XII.2 18. The Meeting of Paul and John The ‘Pillar’ … 19. The True Text of Gal… 20. The Chronology of Galatians… 21. The Martyrdom of the two Witnesses in Rev.. 22 Rev. I. 9… 23. The Worldwide Congratulations In Rev. XI… 24. The Source of Rev. XI… 25. The Apocalypse of John… 26. The 144, 000 ‘Virgins’… 27. St. John Going to Sleep in His Tomb 28. St. John's Grave and the Dust Rising… 29. The Two Tombs of Saint John… 30. The Confusion of the Two Johns 31. The Identification of John the Son of Zebedee… 32. Papias on the Apocalypse of John and the Fourth Gospel 33. The Quotation from Papias… 34 Papias ‘the Beloved Disciple of John’ 35. Who Wrote the Gospel Dictated by John? 36. The Punctuator… 37. The Rest Stood Witness of Papias… 38. The Date of the Fourth Gospel…. 39. Traces of Marcionism in the Gospel of John 40. The Gospel ‘Published During the Lifetime of John’… 41. St. John Witnessing the Testimony of the Beloved Disciple 42. John the Evangelist... 43. The Fourth Evangelist Identified Index
Biography
Robert Eisler
