Full Description
The past fifty years have seen powerful shifts in the methods and objectives of Biblical Studies. The study of the Johannine Literature, in particular, has seen a proliferation of new approaches, as well as innovative exegetical and theological conclusions. This volume surveys the emerging landscape from the perspective of scholars who have shaped the field. Written in a conversational and reflective tone, the articles offer an excellent overview of major issues in the study of the Fourth Gospel and 1-2-3 John.
Contents
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Preface: The Purpose and Plan of This Book
Tom Thatcher
1 Second Thoughts on the Fourth Gospel
John Ashton
Response: Why Should Historical Criticism Continue to have a Place in Johannine Studies?
Wendy E. S. North
2 In Search of a New Synthesis
Johannes Beutler
Response: Johannine Exegesis in Transition: Johannes Beutler's Search for a New Synthesis
Carsten Claussen
3 The Scriptures and the Words and Works of Jesus
Peder Borgen
Response: Living Word(s) and the Bread of Life
Michael Labahn
4 Three Revolutions, a Funeral, and Glimmers of a Challenging Dawn
Thomas L. Brodie
Response: Inspecting an Aerial Photograph of John's Engagement with Sources
Catrin H. Williams
5 Reflections Upon a Johannine Pilgrimage
D. A. Carson
Response: Progress and Regress in Recent Johannine Scholarship: Reflections Upon the Road Ahead
Andreas J. K""stenberger
6 Pursuing the Elusive
R. Alan Culpepper
Response: To What End, Methodology?
Stan Harstine
7 The Gospel and the Epistles of John Read against the Background of the History of the Johannine Communities
Marinus de Jonge
Response: The Combination of a Literary and a Historical Approach to the Gospel of John
Peter G. Kirchschlaeger
8 The Gospel of John and the Signs Gospel
Robert T. Fortna
Response: The Fourth Gospel in First-Century Media Culture
Tom Thatcher
9 What's the Meaning of This?: Relections Upon a Life and Career
Robert Kysar
Response: Is History History?
David Rensberger
10 The Johannine Community among Jewish and Other Early Christian Communities
J. Louis Martyn
Response: Reading History in the Fourth Gospel
Adele Reinhartz
11 Into Narrative and Beyond
Francis J. Moloney
Response: The Beyond
Mary Coloe
12 The Prologue and Chapter 17 of the Gospel of John
John F. O'Grady
Response: The Prologue and Jesus' Final Prayer
Dorothy Lee
13 The Signs of the Messiah and the Quest for Eternal Life
John Painter
Response: The Johannine Conception of Authentic Faith as a Response to the Divine Initiative
Paul N. Anderson
14 Reflecting Upon Thirty Years
Sandra M. Schneiders
Response: Ideologies Past and Present
Colleen Conway
15 Johannine Studies and the Geopolitical: a Reflection Upon Absence and Irruption
Fernando F. Segovia
Response: Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Johannine Studies
Francisco Lozada Jr.
16 The Problem of History in John
D. Moody Smith
Response: Genre, Sources, and History
Craig S. Keener
17 Tradition, Exegetical Formation, and the Leuven Hypothesis
Gilbert Van Belle
Response: The Leuven Hypothesis in C/catholic Perspective
Peter J. Judge
18 The Road Ahead-Three Aspects of Johannine Scholarship
Urban C. von Wahlde
Response: Combining Key Methodologies in Johannine Studies
Felix Just
