Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.