An inquiry into the character and authorship of the Fourth Gospel

Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Wisconsin - Madison and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. xvi, 528 pages ; 22 cm Published for the Hibbert Trustees Includes index Book 1:General character of the fourth Gospel -- Contents and plan of the gospel -- Comparison of the gospel with the synoptics -- The purpose with which the gospel was written -- How far is the gospel historical? -- Book 2: Authorship -- External evidence -- General state of belief in the later part of the second century -- Justin Martyr -- The gospel and the first epistle of John -- The epistle of polycarp -- Papias and the presbyter John -- The shepherd of Hermas; The epistles of Barnabas and of Ignatius; and John XXI 24 -- The Clementine Homilies -- The Valentinians -- Marcion -- Basilides -- Naasenni, Perpatæ, Alogi, and Docetæ -- Results of the external evidence -- External evidence -- Internal evidence in favour of the traditional view -- The author an Aramaic-speaking Jew -- The writer's knowledge of the topography of Palestine -- Alleged signs that the writer was an eye-witness -- Concluding arguments and observations -- Objections to the traditional view -- Passages about the eye-witness -- Alleged signs that the work is by a disciple of the apostle -- Alleged anti-Judaic character of the gospel and Greek philosophical training of the author -- Could the portrait of Jesus have been drawn by a personal friend? -- The unhistorical character of the book -- Ignorance of Palestine and Jewish usages -- The objection from the authorship of the apocalypse -- The Paschal controversy commitment to retain 20151204