The Fate of the Apostles by Sean McDowell

Author:Sean McDowell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2015-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

A Johannine School

The existence of a Johannine School can be traced to influential writers such as Strauss, Renan, and J.B. Lightfoot.51 Many modern scholars embrace some version of the Johannine School as well,52 the idea that there was a community from which the writings of John emerged. Scholarly opinion varies as to the relationship of John to the community, and also varies regarding which John headed the school. Some posit John the apostle as the head of the school, others assume the leader was a student of the apostle, and others believe John the elder headed it. Still others assume different members of the community wrote the various Johannine books. Differences here are vast. While the existence of some type of Johannine School is generally accepted, a consensus has not been reached. Technically, one could still accept that John, the son of Zebedee, “authored” for the fourth Gospel, yet believe his traditions were later redacted by others before it reached its final form. Keener considers this a “workable compromise” that is “tenable but probably not necessary.”53 If some version of the Johannine School is correct, then John could have faced an early martyrdom and yet in some sense still have “authored” of the fourth Gospel.

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