The Epistles of John

In this study, Hugo Méndez challenges the established scholarly assumption that the Epistles of John were composed within a single 'Johannine Community.' He meticulously lays out the evidence that the Epistles were written by three different writers in a chain of imitation, creative adaptation, and invention.

Hugo Méndez is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A scholar of the New Testament and Early Christianity, he is the author of The Gospel of John: A New History and The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem, and co-author, with Bart Ehrman, of The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 8th edition.