Description
The view that John the Seer, if he was not the Apostle, was a Christian whose ethnic background was Jewish and probably Palestinian, has to date gone virtually unchallenged. R. H. Charles’s old but still popular commentary has provided strong support for this position. This text is critical of Charles’s assumptions, which pre-date modern concerns for the effect of social context on linguistic performance. This study examines John’s work in the light of current research, and also considers the two chief supporting arguments in favour of John’s Jewish background.
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