John the Son of Zebedee: The Life of a Legend

Beginning with New Testament descriptions of John as fisherman, and extending through the most recent Johannine scholarship, Alan Culpepper gathers stories from church fathers, the apocryphal acts of John, medieval sources, Victorian poets, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century historians of earliest Christianity to explore the life, exploits and the death of this most significant apostle. The resulting picture of John is one of the most important and complete, and is a fascinating account of the development of the Johannine legend, no less than the historical tradition.