%0 Book %A James Patrick %D 2013 %C New York, United States of America %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 9781453909409 %T Andrew of Bethsaida and the Johannine Circle %B The Muratorian Tradition and the Gospel Text %R 10.3726/978-1-4539-0940-9 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051278 %X This book is a reading of the text of the Gospel of John in light of a tradition of Johannine authorship represented by the Muratorian Fragment, Papias of Hierapolis, and the Anti-Marcionite Prologue, all which are taken to reflect the influence of a common tradition represented by Jerome, Clement of Alexandria, and Victorinus of Pettau. Taken together these suggest that the Gospel of John was the work of the late first- or early second-century John the Presbyter who mediated the tradition of a distinctive group of Johannine disciples among whom Andrew was most important. %K authorship, influence, disciples %G English