The Fourth Gospel in Research and Debate (1910 Bacon), book
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The Fourth Gospel in Research and Debate: A series of essays on problems concerning the origin and value of the anonymous writings attributed to the Apostle John (1910) is a book by Benjamin Wisner Bacon.
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Editions and translations
Published in New York, NY: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1910 and in London: Unwin, 1910. Reprinted in New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1918 and 1978.
Table of contents
- Introduction: The Issues Involved
- Part I: The External Evidence
- 1. The Modern Form of the Question
- 2. Echoes and Influences
- 3. Papias, Eusebius, and the Argument from Silence
- 4. The Tradition as to the Elders and Its Transformations
- 5. John in Asia and the Martyr Apostles
- Part II: The Direct Internal Evidence
- 6. The John of Revelation
- 7. Epistles and Appendix-Their Relation to One Another and to the Gospel
- 8. The Appendix-a Product of Revision at Rome
- 9. The Battle for Recognition of Asian Tradition at Rome
- 10. Irenaeus the Mediator and the Fourfold Gospel
- Part III: The Indirect Internal Evidence
- 11. The Evangelist's Task
- 12. The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved, and His Relation to the Author
- 13. Johannine Pragmatism
- 14. Johannine Treatment of Synoptic Material
- 15. Johannine Topography and Chrnology
- 16. Johannine Quartodecimanism
- Part IV: Latest Phases of Debate and Research
- 17. The "Defense" of the Gospel
- 18. The Analytical School of Criticism
- 19. Dislocations of Material and Tatian's Order
- 20. Conclusion