John, the son of Zebedee : the life of a legend / [print]
R. Alan Culpepper.
- first Fortress Press edition.
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, (c)2000.
- xix, 376 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Studies on personalities of the New Testament .
- Studies on personalities of the New Testament. .
Originally published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, c1994.
Introduction -- 1. Fisherman : the setting of the apostle's early life -- 2. Son of Thunder : the apostle in the synoptic gospels and Acts -- 3. Beloved disciples : the apostle in the Fourth Gospel -- 4. Elder and seer : John in the epistles and the apocalypse -- 5. Obscurity : the apostle in the second century -- 6. Saint : the eagle soars -- 7. Hero : the acts of the apostles -- 8. Icon : the apostle in art and literature -- 9. Historical figure : the apostle in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century research -- 10. Eclipse and acclaim : the apostle in recent research -- Reflections.