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==John of Patmos in Scholarship== | ==John of Patmos in Scholarship== | ||
A '''select bibliography''' of works on John of Patmos: | |||
''Comfort and protest : reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos'', by Allan A. Boesak. | |||
''The 'Figurae' of John of Patmos'', by Richard Bauckham. | |||
''St. John of Patmos and the seven churches of the Apocalypse'', by Otto F.A. Meinardus. | |||
==John of Patmos in Fiction== | ==John of Patmos in Fiction== | ||
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John of Patmos is the author of Revelation.
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 in ancient sources
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 1:4 -- 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 Scholarship
A select bibliography of works on John of Patmos:
Comfort and protest : reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos, by Allan A. Boesak. The 'Figurae' of John of Patmos, by Richard Bauckham. St. John of Patmos and the seven churches of the Apocalypse, by Otto F.A. Meinardus.
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.
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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Pages in category "John of Patmos (subject)"
The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.