<P> The Epistle of Jude title is written as follows: "Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James" (NRSV). The debate has continued over the author's identity as the apostle, the brother of Jesus, both, or neither . </P> <P> The First Epistle of John is traditionally held to have been composed by John the Apostle (the author of the Gospel of John) when the writer was in advanced age . The epistle's content, language and conceptual style indicate that it may have had the same author as the Gospel of John, 2 John and 3 John . Eusebius claimed that the author of 2nd and 3rd John was not John the Apostle, but an "elder John" which refers either to the apostle at an advanced age or a hypothetical second individual ("John the Elder"). Scholars today are divided on the issue . </P> <P> The author of the Book of Revelation identifies himself several times as "John". and states that he was on Patmos when he received his first vision . As a result, the author is sometimes referred to as John of Patmos . The author has traditionally been identified with John the Apostle to whom the Gospel and the epistles of John were attributed . It was believed that he was exiled to the island of Patmos during the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian, and there wrote Revelation . Justin Martyr (c. 100--165 AD) who was acquainted with Polycarp, who had been mentored by John, makes a possible allusion to this book, and credits John as the source . Irenaeus (c. 115--202) assumes it as a conceded point . According to the Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, modern scholars are divided between the apostolic view and several alternative hypotheses put forth in the last hundred years or so . Ben Witherington points out that linguistic evidence makes it unlikely that the books were written by the same person . </P> <Dl> <Dd> See individual book articles for more detail . </Dd> </Dl>

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