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'''John of Patmos''' is the author of [[Revelation]].
[[File:John Patmos Velazquez.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Saint John at Patmos (1619 Velazquez), art]]]]
 
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'''John of Patmos''' is the author of the [[Book of Revelation]], traditionally identified with Jesus' disciple [[John]].


==Overview==
==Overview==


John of Patmos is traditionally identified with "the beloved disciple" of the Fourth Gospel and Jesus' disciple "John son of Zebedee". However, there is no reliable corroboration of these notions from extra-biblical sources and even the Bible itself never identifies either the 'beloved disciple' nor the author of the Fourth Gospel. The 'John' of Revelation also may, or may not be the son of Zebedee. Since our sources are not very specific about the patrimony of this author, suppositions concerning any putative connection to John son of Zebedee are speculative and nothing more. Therefore, it is unsafe to equate the author of Revelation with John the son of Zebedee, or the author of the Gospel of John or the Johannine epistles. More likely, it seems, is the belief that the Gospel and the Epistles and the Revelation all flow from a 'Johannine School' of theology. [[R. Alan Culpepepper]] is perhaps the best known representative of this line of thought.  
John of Patmos is traditionally identified with "the [[Beloved Disciple]]" of the Fourth Gospel and Jesus' disciple "[[John son of Zebedee]]". However, there is no reliable corroboration of these notions from ancient sources. More likely, it seems, is the belief that the Gospel and the Epistles and the Revelation all flow from a 'Johannine School' of theology. [[R. Alan Culpepper]] is perhaps the best known representative of this line of thought.
 
* See also [[John of Patmos (research)]] -- survey of scholarly works


==John of Patmos in ancient sources==
== John of Patmos, in ancient sources ==
 
====[[Revelation of John]]====


====[[Revelation]]====
Rev 1:1 -- '' The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John...''  
Rev 1:1 -- '' The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John...''  


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Rev 22:8 -- ''I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me...''
Rev 22:8 -- ''I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me...''


==John of Patmos in Scholarship==
== John of Patmos, in the arts ==


A '''select bibliography''' of works on John of Patmos:
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File:John Patmos Giotto.jpg|[[St John on Patmos (1320 Giotto), art]]
''Comfort and protest : reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos'', by Allan A. Boesak.
File:John Patmos Tura.jpg|[[St. John the Evangelist on Patmos (1470 Tura), art]]
''The 'Figurae' of John of Patmos'', by Richard Bauckham.
File:John Patmos Bosch.jpg|[[Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos (1485 Bosch), art]]
''St. John of Patmos and the seven churches of the Apocalypse'', by Otto F.A. Meinardus.
File:John Patmos Ghirlandaio.jpg|[[St. John the Evangelist on the Island of Patmos (1485 Ghirlandaio), art]]
''Apocalypse and redemption in early Christianity : from John of Patmos to Augustine of Hippo'', by Paula Fredriksen. - In: Vigiliae christianae. - 45. 1991, 2. - S. 151.
File:John Patmos Botticelli.jpg|[[St John on Patmos (1492 Botticelli), art]]
''Historical memory in an Aegean monastery : St John of Patmos and the emirate of Menteshe'', by Elizabeth A. Zachariadou. - In: The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe. - 2007. - S. 131-137.
File:John Patmos Baldung.jpg|[[St John at Patmos (1515 Baldung), art]]
''Critiquing the excess of Empire : a synkrisis of John of Patmos and Dio of Prusa'', by Peter S. Perry. - In: Journal for the study of the New Testament. - 29. 2007, 4. - S. 473-496.
File:John Patmos Titian.jpg|[[St. John the Evangelist on Patmos (1544 Titian), art]]
''The social history of Satan : part 3: John of Patmos and Ignatius of Antioch - contrasting visions of "God's people"'', by Elaine Pagels. - In: Heresy and identity in Late Antiquity. - 2008. - S. 231-252.
File:John Patmos Velazquez.jpg|[[Saint John at Patmos (1619 Velazquez), art]]
 
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==John of Patmos in Fiction==


In 1996 a video titled ''St. John in Exile'' was produced, starring Dean Jones.  In the same year, a musical CD titled ''In the Isle of Patmos'', by Stamatis Spanoudakis, was also released.  In 2010 ''St. John at Patmos: A Sacred Poem'' by William Eaton Rusher was published.
In 1996 a video titled ''St. John in Exile'' was produced, starring Dean Jones.  In the same year, a musical CD titled ''In the Isle of Patmos'', by Stamatis Spanoudakis, was also released.  In 2010 ''St. John at Patmos: A Sacred Poem'' by William Eaton Rusher was published.
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==Related categories==
==Related categories==
*[[John]] / [[Beloved Disciple]]  
*[[John]] / [[Beloved Disciple]]  


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Patmos Wikipedia]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Patmos Wikipedia]


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John of Patmos is the author of the Book of Revelation, traditionally identified with Jesus' disciple John.

Overview

John of Patmos is traditionally identified with "the Beloved Disciple" of the Fourth Gospel and Jesus' disciple "John son of Zebedee". However, there is no reliable corroboration of these notions from ancient sources. More likely, it seems, is the belief that the Gospel and the Epistles and the Revelation all flow from a 'Johannine School' of theology. R. Alan Culpepper is perhaps the best known representative of this line of thought.

John of Patmos, in ancient sources

Revelation of John

Rev 1:1 -- The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John...

Rev 1:4 -- John to the seven churches that are in Asia:Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,

Rev 1:9 -- I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

Rev 22:8 -- I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me...

John of Patmos, in the arts

In 1996 a video titled St. John in Exile was produced, starring Dean Jones. In the same year, a musical CD titled In the Isle of Patmos, by Stamatis Spanoudakis, was also released. In 2010 St. John at Patmos: A Sacred Poem by William Eaton Rusher was published.

Aside from these artistic 'readings' of the figure of John of Patmos, there have been no shortage of fictional renderings in book form. Most famously, Studies in the Apocalypse of John of Patmos A Non-Interpretive and Literary Approach to the Last Book of the New Testament by Edyth Hoyt (Hardcover - 1950). This volume has gone through a series of iterations and all of them not of a scholarly nature.

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