The Enigma of the Fourth Gospel: Its Author and Its Writer

By Robert Eisler

First Published in 1938, The Enigma of the Fourth Gospel by Robert Eisler presents a comprehensive overview of the Fourth gospel, its author, and its writer. In forty-one chapters, it discusses themes like an insoluble enigma; the preface to the Christian reader; the longer Anti-Marcionite preface to the Fourth Gospel; the Greek and the Latin texts of the Anti-Marcionite prologue to Luke; the two traditions about the evangelist John; John killed by King Herod in Jewish tradition; the two tombs of St. John in Ephesus; the confusion of the two Johns; who wrote the Gospel dictated by John; the date of the Fourth Gospel and of the first Epistle of John; traces of Marcionism in the Gospel of John; John the evangelist and the Fourth evangelist identified. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of Christianity and religion.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032794216
• ISBN13: 9781032794211
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"