Johannine literature

Johannine literature is the collection of New Testament works that are traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, or to the Johannine community.

Johannine literature is traditionally considered to include the following works:[2] Of these five books, the only one that explicitly identifies its author as "[God's] servant John" (Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης, romanized: Iōannēs) is Revelation.

Modern scholarship generally rejects the idea that this work is written by the same author as the other four documents.

[4] Scholars have debated the authorship of Johannine literature (the Gospel of John, Epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation) since at least the third century, but especially since the Enlightenment.

The authorship by John the Apostle is rejected by many modern scholars.