John the Son of Zebedee: The Life of a Legend

內容簡介

Fisherman: the setting of the apostle's early life -- Son of thunder: the apostle in the synoptic gospels and Acts -- Beloved disciple: the apostle in the fourth gospel -- Elder and seer: John in the epistles and the apocalypse -- Obscurity: the apostle in the second century -- Saint: the eagle soars -- Hero: the acts of the apostles -- Icon: the apostle in art and literature -- Historical figure: the apostle in nineteenth and early twentieth-century research -- Eclipse and acclaim: the apostle in recent research -- Reflections.