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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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

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