The authorship of the johannine worksthe gospel of john, epistles of john, and the book of revelation has been debated by scholars since at least the 2nd century ad. Was the book of revelation written before the gospel of john. Elaine pagels on the book of revelation february 24. The author names himself as john in the text, but his precise identity remains a point of academic debate.
Revelation has long been attributed to the author of john s gospel, in spite of the differences in style of writing. The end of the age his people who sleep in the dust will awake to everlasting life. Revelation was written, but it does seem to have been written in. Traditionally, both books have been identified as coming from the same person, john the son. Someone recently asked me if the same author could have written both the book of revelation and the gospel of john. The gospel according to mark read by david suchet duration. The book of revelation dramatized version and written.
This book is written to christs servants so the things contained within this book will not be things for beginners. When was the book of revelation written by the apostle john. John the divine, although the godgiven title is at the very beginning of the text, the revelation of. The evangelist john rests one hand on his gospel book, in this 83inchtall marble sculpture carved by donatello in about 1415 for a niche in. The revelation of jesus christ, which god gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass. The elder, the seer, and the apostle bible odyssey. This would push the date for the gospel of john out to ad 64 or 65.
What the scholars found is that the book of revelation was not written by the author of the gospel of john but by a different john living on the isle of. The book of revelation dramatized and written kjv the book of revelation dramatized kjv. The book of revelation was written sometime around 96 ce in asia minor. No mention of future destruction of jerusalem, which for fullpreterists is odd, since john writes the entire book of revelation about it and the topic would be front and center on his mind that is only 24 year away. In the book of revelation the return of christ at the end of the seven last plagues, as described in the book of revelation. The author names himself as john, but modern scholars consider it unlikely that the author of revelation also wrote the gospel of john.
The writing of the new testament john and revelation. This is the holy book of revelation, known as the revelation of st. The reason for this difference in style could possibly be that, the book of revelation was revealed to john the apostle at his old age and was possibly penned with the help of someone who was not good in greek language. Revelation is written in much poorer greek than the gospel and letters are. Those who do evil are thrown into the furnace of fire. It is called dating the new testament, and you can find it at. There is an excellent web site that i have found very useful. Dionysius of alexandria set out some of the evidence for this view as early as the second half of the third. First, lets examine what the book of revelation says about its author. There is no need to study revelation as our pastor believes it is symbolic description of the destruction of jerusalem in ad 70. The gospel of john appears to have been written during the early.
The author was probably a christian from ephesus known as john the elder. John did not know greek well enough to write his gospel, as well as the book of revelation, in that language. Was the book of john written first or the book of revelation. John of patmos could be the author named as john in the book of revelation, the apocalyptic text forming the final book of the. The main debate centers on who authored the writings, and which of the writings, if any, can be ascribed to a common author. With the book of revelation, the reason for the identification was simple. There may have been a single author for the gospel and the three epistles. The name revelation comes from the first word of the book in koine greek.
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