Authorship: Apostle John

The Apocalypse of John | Maurice on the "Last Time" | Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John

F.W. Farrar "It has been usual to say that the Spanish Jesuit Alcasar.. was the founder of the Pręterist School.. But to me it seems that the founder of the Pręterist School is none other than St. John himself." 

• Firmin Abauzit: An Historical Discourse on the Apocalypse (1730) Makes case for Cerinthus as author

• Henk Jan de Jonge: The Apocalypse of John and the Imperial Cult (2002 PDF) "The book is often dated to the reign of Domitian, mainly on the basis of the testimony of Irenaeus.5 But Irenaeus was writing in Gaul in about 180 CE. He thought that John saw his vision some 35 years before he, Irenaeus, was born. 'We would not normally regard so distant, belated and second-hand an opinion äs, by itself, evidence."

• James JL Ratton - The Apocalypse of St. John - A Commentary on the Greek Text (1912 PDF) "This edition of "The Revelation of Jesus Christ" completes my work in connection with the Apocalypse.. It gives additional proofs of the early date of the Book, before the fall of Jerusalem.. Nero's place in the Revelation of the Kingdom as the Destroyer of Daniel, the Antichrist of the Jews, is pointed out.."  [A Catholic/Orthodox book rejecting of the Future Antichrist as myth.  Nero, not the Pope, is "Antichrist" - Could be seen as descendent of Alcasar's theory]

• G. Rojas-Flores - The Book of Revelation and the First Years of Nero’s Reign (2004)   "In Revelation there is no reference to the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple. It would be inexplicable in terms of religious identity if the work had been written after the year 70, because John belonged to a mentality and a culture that was notably Hebrew."

INTRODUCTION TO THE APOCALYPSE
From Student's New Testament Handbook By Marvin Richardson Vincent

On the question of authorship, critics differ, as follows :

Gospel, Epistles, and Apocalypse, all by John : EICHHORN, HENGSTENBERG, EBRARD, LUTHARDT, GODET, ALFORD, ELLICOTT, SALMON, F. W. FARRAR, MEYER, WESTCOTT.

Apocalypse by John, Gospel and Epistles by another : BAUR, SCHWEGLER, ZELLER, K.OSTLIN, HlLGENFELD, DAVIDSON.

Gospel and Epistles by John, Apocalypse by another : SCHLEIERMACHER, LOCKE, CREDNER, BLEEK, EWALD, DE WETTE, NEANDER, DUSTERDIECK.

Neither by John : KEIM, VOLKMAR, SCHOLTEN, HOLTZMANN, PFLEIDERER, HARNACK, WEIZSACKER.

The authorship of the Apocalypse is assigned to JOHN MARK : So HITZIG, WEISSE.

To John the Presbyter : so CREDNER, DEWETTE, BLEEK, EWALD, MANGOLD, DUSTERDIECK.

Anonymous : RENAN, HARNACK, PFLEIDERER.

A small school of critics, headed by EBERHARD VISCHER, 1885, endorsed by HARNACK, has assailed the integrity of the Apocalypse, maintaining that it was written at different dates and shaped by a redactor. Thus VISCHER holds that it was originally Jewish, and that its Christian form is due to a redactor.

WEIZSACKER, 1890, that it was composed partly in the reign of Galba and Vespasian, and partly in that of Hadrian, and that the different parts were combined by a redactor. VOLTER, 1885, that the original Apocalypse by John underwent three revisions, and received three series of interpolations, which he ascribes to the times of Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.

Similarly, PFLEIDERER, 1887. SPITTA, that it was composed of three or four documents : an original Apocalypse, by John Mark, A.D. 60; a Jewish Apocalypse, in the time of Caligula ; and a second Jewish Apocalypse, when Pompey conquered Judaea. Additions of a redactor in the time of Trajan.

For replies to VOLTER and VISCHER, see REUSS : Geschichte der heiligen Schriften des N. T., 6th Edn., 1887. HILGENFELD: Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche
Theologie, 1888, 1890. BEYSCHLAG : in Studien und Kritiken, 1888. DUSTERDIECK : Gottinger Gelehrten Anzeigen,

The early and commonly accepted tradition that Asia Minor, and particularly Ephesus, was the scene of John's later labors, was challenged in connection with the attacks on the fourth Gospel.  So KEIM, HOLTZMANN, SCHOLTEN, SCHENKEL.

The tradition is maintained by HILGENFELD, RENAN, WEIZSACKER, MANGOLD, VOLTER, LUTHARDT, WEISS, GODET, ALFORD, MEYER, LIGHTFOOT, WATKINS, WESTCOTT, and others.

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Date: 13 Dec 2005
Time: 15:08:26

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They say that I never saw martyrdom,they just do not understand the nature of my martyrdom.Whereas the spirit of Elijah was with John the Baptist,my spirit,in a similar way has walked in the succesive lives of men up to this current life when I was called to Rise and awaken in this end time.I was not Vlad Dracul but I was with him,hence the myth that by the blood he was kept immortal.I was not Michaelangelo,but I pushed him,hence the monikor-"Divine".I was not John Paul Jones but I fought with him and yelled "I have not yet begun to fight".I was not Edgar Allen Poe,but thru the centuries of loss I inspired him to write "never more".A good story No?

Date: 15 Nov 2006
Time: 09:21:51

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I believe that just as Genesis was a history of the past, the Revelations of St. John are a "history" of the future, and that St. John may have seen books that would be published, that is why he has such graffic pictures of things which we could only describe as caractures.

Much has come to pass, with the historical, real rapture taking place between 476-539 A.D., then looking after the 1000 years when everythign was done, "...In the name of Christ..."' we had what event that restored the church? It is all going exactly as St. John fortold including the New Jeruselem.
Larry
 

Date: 16 Nov 2007
Time: 20:24:35

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I have been looking for evidence that John the beloved ever died, and as of yet, have not been able to find anything stating that he did. In response to the comment about the statement Jesus said, stating, "If I will him to live until I return", as being hypothetical. I don't believe Jesus ever spoke in hypthetical terms. Having not found any concrete evidence to the contrary, I believe that John lives among us, and will be one of the witnesses.