Resources on the Gospel of John

A-Studying and Reading through the Fourth Gospel

Recommended Introductory Works on the Gospel of John

Brown, Raymond E. An Introduction to the Gospel of John (2003)

Kostenberger, Andreas J., Encountering John: The Gospel in Historical, Literary, and Theological (1999)

Burge, Gary M., Interpreting the Gospel of John (1992)

B-Recommended Online Resources on John

The Johannine Literature Web , the most exhaustive online resource on the fourth Gospel.

John- Jesus- History, “The “John, Jesus, and History Group” highlights issues related to the Johannine tradition and the composition-history of the Fourth Gospel and the Johannine Epistles, with special emphasis on the place of these documents in contemporary study of Christian origins. Dialogue on these issues is encouraged through the group’s annual meetings and through other venues throughout the year.”

Johannine Literature Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, this particular website provides an overview “of some recent trends in the scholarly study of the Gospel and Letters of John.Links to abstracts, papers, and supporting materials are sometimes given, with the permission of the authors.”

Johannine Literature Internet Group, it is an online exchange among students of the Gospel of John

The Johannine Bibliography Webpages

Gospel of John in Theopedia, provides basic introduction on issues pertaining to the author, date, origin, themes, relationships to the Synoptics, etc.

The Fourth Gospel and John’s Epistles, an online research page oriented toward Johannine Literature

Gospel of John in Wikipedia, provides basic information on the issues of structure, authorship and date, provinece, textual history and manuscripts,etc.

Gospel of John, an Overview Christ: The Heart of Christianity , this site gives an overview on the purpose, power, penetration, and plan of the Gospel of John (4PS)

The Gospel of John, a course site administered by Dr. James F. McGrath, an expert on John.

Hearing on the Christ of John’s Gospel, A five part lecture series by Jonathan Pennington

Gospel of John Commentary MP3 Audio and HTML Notes

Notes on Lectures of the Florilegia Institute by Gil Bailie Series: “The Gospel of John” Tape #10; Re: John 13:31-17:26

D. A. Carson Audio sermons and lectures on the Gospel of John

The Gospel of John in Film, Television, and Multimedia by Glenn Patrick Buxton

C-Previous Posts on John

John’s Religious Environment

On the Bread of Life Discourse ( John 6:32-51)

Carter on Imperial Cult in the Gospel of John

Important Works on the Gospel of John

Jesus’ Vision of God

John and the Synoptics: Differences and Similarities

Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gospel of John Review (Part I)

Review of God’s Indwelling Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Old & New Testaments ( Part I)

The Old Testament in the Gospel of John

A Place Called Heaven: John 14:1-4

Book Review on The Community of the Beloved Disciple

French Biblical Scholar, Xavier Léon-Dufour, Died

Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel

Recent Study on John

Spirit and Son in the the Gospel of John

Jesus’ Vision of God

The Logos in the Prologue: Conclusion

John the Baptist bears witness of the Word (1:6-8)

The Word in relation to God and Creation (1:1-5)

The Meaning and Function of the Logos: Part VI

The Structure of the Prologue : Part V

The Prologue of John: Post 4, Logos in Jewish Context

The Prologue of John: Post 3 & 4

The Prologue of John: Post 2

The Prologue of John: 1:1-18

The Logos in the Prologue of John ( John 1:1-18)

Book Review of Who Do You, Say that I am?

Eschatology in John’s Gospel

Jesus’ foreknowledge in the Gospel of John


D-Important Works on the Fourth Gospel

Background
•C. H. Dodd, The Interpretation of the Fourth
•James charlesworth, John and the Dead Sea Scrolls
•Stephen Motyer, Your Father the Devil? A New Approach to John and the Jews
•Richard Bauckham, ed., The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences
•James Dunn’s article, “Let John be John: A Gospel for its Time”,
•John Ashton, Understanding the Fourth Gospel.
•R. Alan Culpepper and C. Clifton Black.eds., Exploring the Gospel of John
•D. Moody Smith, The Theology of the Gospel of John,
•R. Kysar’s The Fourth Evangelist and His Gospel.
•John W. Pryor, John: Evangelist of the Covenant People.
•Stephen Smalley’s book, John: Evangelist and Interpreter,
•John Painter’, John: Witness and Theologian

Commentaries
•D. A. Carson, The Gospel According to John
•Craig, S. Keener , John (Two volumes)
•G. R. Beasley-Murray, John,
•Ben Witherington’s John’s Wisdom.
•Barnabas Lindars, The Gospel of John,
•Raymond Brown, The Gospel According to John (Two volumes)
•C. K. Barrett’s, The Gospel According to John
•C. H. Talbert’s, Reading John
. Kostenberger, Andreas J. John (BECT)
•Mark W. G. Stibbe, John’s Gospel
. Morris, Leon Morris, The Gospel According to John
•Francis J. Moloney, Belief in the Word (Two volumes- John 1-4 & Signs and Shadows: 5-12).
•Culpepper’s, Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel.
•Craig A. Evans, Word and Glory. On The Exegetical and Theological Background of John’s Prologue.
•H. Odeberg’s The Fourth Gospel

History and Historicity
•John A. T. Robinson, The Priority of John.
•C. H. Dodd’s book, Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel
•Craig Blomberg, The Reliability of the Gospel of John
. The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology in the Gospel of John (Baker Academic, 2007)

Authorship
•D.A. Carson, Douglas J. Moo, and Leon Morris, An Introduction to the New Testament
.Martin Hengel’s, The Johannine Question,
•James Charlesworth, The Beloved Disciple: Whose Witness Validates the Gospel of John? Sources
•D. Moody Smith, John Among the Gospels: The Relationship in Twentieth-Century Research.
•Denaux, ed., John and the Synoptics,
•R. T. Fortna, The Gospel of Signs: A Reconstruction of the Narrative Source Underlying the Fourth Gospel,
•Urban C. von Wahlde, The Fourth Gospel and its Predecessor and Earliest Version of John’s Gospel: Recovering the Gospel of Signs.
•Thomas L. Brodie, The Quest for the Origin of John’s Gospel: A Source-Oriented Approach.
•Barnabas Lindars, Behind the Fourth Gospel,
•D. Moody Smith, The Composition and Order of the Fourth Gospel & Johannine Christianity: Essays on its Setting, Sources, and Theology

The Johannine Community
.J. Louis Martyn’s History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel
.Raymond Brown, The Community of the Beloved Disciple
.Oscar Cullmann, The Johannine Circle
.Urban C. von Wahlde, “Community in Conflict: The History and Social Context of the Johannine Community”
.David Rensberger, Johannine Faith and Liberating Community
.Bill Domeris, “Christology and Community”
.Fernando F. Segovia, “The Significance of Social Location in Reading John’s Story”

Christology
.James Dunn, Christology in the Making
•Maurice Casey, From Jewish Prophet to Gentile God.
•William Loader, The Christology of the Fourth Gospel: Structure and Issues,
•Maarten Menken, “The Christology of the Fourth Gospel: A Survey of Recent Research”
•Delbert Burkett, The Son of the Man in the Gospel of John.
•Robert Rhea, The Johannine Son of Man
•Francis J. Moloney, The Johannine Son of Man
•Wayne A. Meeks, “The Man from Heaven in Johannine Sectarianism”. Meeks
•Jerome Neyrey, An Ideology of Revolt: John’s Christology in Social-Science Perspective.
•J. Harris, Jesus as ‘God’
•Lars Hartman, “Johannine Jesus-Belief and Monotheism”,
•Wayne Meeks, “Equal to God”
•Marianne M. Thompson, The Humanity of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel
•Peder Borgen, “God’s Agent in the Fourth Gospel”
•E. Harvey, “Christ as Agent”
.The Gospel of John and Christian Theology Richard Bauckham (editor), Carl Mosser (editor)

E-c- Major Johannine Scholars and Their Influential Works

The following list is limited to English and French languages only.

1. John, the author of the Fourth Gospel (The Gospel according to John 85-90 AD, The Epistles of John , and Revelation)

2. John A.T. Robinson (The New Look on the Fourth Gospel; The Priority of the Gospel of John, 1985)

3. Raymond E. Brown ( The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, and Hates of an Individual Church in the New Testament Times, 1979; The Gospel According to John, 2 vols, 1966-70)

4. Stephen S. Smalley (John the Evangelist and Interpreter, 1978)

5. George R. Beasley-Murray (John, WBC, 1987; Gospel of Life:Theology in the Fourth Gospel, 1991)

6. R. Alan Culpepper ( The Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel, 1987)

7. C. H. Dodd ( The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, 1953; Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel, 1963)

9. D.A. Carson ( Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility:Biblical Perspectives in Tension, 1981; Recent Literature on the Fourth Gospel: Some Reflections, 1983, The Function of the Paraclete in John 16:7-11, 1979; The Gospel of John Commentary, 1991)

10. Francis J. Moloney (Belief in the Word; Signs and Shadows; Glory Not Dishonor; The Gospel of John

11. Rudolf Bultmann (Das Evangelium des Johannes, 1950)

12. Rudolf Schnackenburg (The Gospel According to St. John, 1965, 1971, 1975, 3 vols)

13. C. K. Barrett (Essays on John, 1982; The Gospel According to St. John: An Introduction With Commentary and Notes on the Greek Text, 1955; New Testament essays, 1972; The Gospel of John and Judaism, 1975)

14. Barnabas Lindars (The Fourth Gospel, 1961; Behind the Fourth Gospel, 1971)

15. D.L. Moody Smith ( The Theology of the Fourth Gospel, 1995; The Composition and Order of the Fourth Gospel, 1965; John Among the Gospels, 1992)

16. Robert Fortna (The Gospel of Signs, 1970)

18. M. Hengel ( The Johannine Question, 1989)

19. W. R. G. Loader ( The Christology of the Fourth Gospel, 1989)

20. John Ashton (Understanding the Fourth Gospel, 1993; Approaches

21. G. van Belle ( The Signs in the Fourth Gospel: Historical Survey and Critical Evaluation of the Semeia Hypothesis, 1994)

22. Leon Morris (Jesus Is the Christ: Studies in Theology of John, 1989; Studies in the Fourth Gospel, 1969; Reflections on the Gospel of John, 2 vols, The Gospel According to John, 1995)

23. J. Louis Martyn (History & Theology in the Fourth Gospel, 1968)

24. Craig R. Koester (Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel: Meaning, Mystery, Community, 1995)

25. R. J. Cassidy (John’s Gospel in New Perspective: Christology and the Realities of Roman Power, 1992)

26. P. M. Casey ( Is John’s Gospel True? 1996)

27. S. Motyer (Your Father the Devil? A New Approach to John and “the Jews,” 1997)

28. Herman Riddermos (The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary, 1997)

29. Andreas Kostenberger ( The Gospel According to John Baker, The Mission of Jesus and the Disciples According to John2004)

30. Craig Keener ( The Gospel of John: A Commentary, 2 vols, 2003)

31. John W. Pryor ( John:Evangelist of the Covenant People: The Narrative and Themes of the Fourth Gospel, 1992)

32. Stephen S. Smalley (John: Evangelist and Interpreter. History and Interpretation in the Fourth Gospel, 1978)

33. Marianne Meye Thompson ( The Humanity of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel, 1988; The God of the Gospel of John, 2001)

34. M. Gourdes (Cinquante ans de recherche johannique, de Bultmann a la narratoloie, 1995

35. P. -H. Menoud (L’Evangile de Jean d’apres les recherches recentes, 1947)

36. Y. Simoens (L’evangile selon Jean. Positions et propositions, 2000)

37. M. -E. Boismard and A. Lamouille (L’Evangile de Jean, 1977)

38. F.-M. Braun (Jean le Theologien, 3 vol; vol. 1: Jean le Theologien et son Evangile dans L’Eglise ancienne, 1959; vol. 2: Les grandes traditions d’Israel, 1964; vol. 3: 1977)

39. E. Hoskins ( The Fourth Gospel, 1947)

40. M. – J. Lagrange ( Evangile selon Saint Jean, 1948)

41. X. Leon-Dufour ( Lecture de L’Evangile selon Jean, 1987-96, 4 vols.

42. B.J. Manns (L’Evangile de Jean a la lumiere du Judaisme, 1991)

43. I. de la Potterie ( La Verite dans Saint Jean, 2 vols, 1977)

44. Y. Simoens ( Selon Jean, 3 vols.)

45. H. van den Bussche ( L’Evangile du Verbe, 2 vols, 1959-1961; Jean: Commentaire de L’Evangile Spirituel, 1967)

46. F. Vouga ( Le cadre historique et l’intention theologique de Jean, 1977)

47. J. -D. Kaestli, J. -M. Poffet, and J. Zumstein (eds) ( La communaute johannique et son histoire, 1990)

48. A. Marchadour (ed) (Origine et posterite de L’Evangile de Jean, 1990)

49. Ernst Haechen ( vJohn, 1984, 2 vols; vol. 1: A Commentary on the Gospel of John Chapters 1-6; vol. 2: A Commentary on the Gospel of John Chapters 7-21)

50. Gary M. Burge ( The Anointed Community: The Holy Spirit in the Johannine Tradition, 1987; Interpreting the Gospel of John, 1992, John: The NIV Application Commentary, 2000

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