THEO5315
Johannine Literature
3 Units
This course will include a study of the authorship, purpose and main themes of the Johannine literature. Special attention will be given to some selected passages from the Gospel according to John, the Epistles of John and Revelation (Apocalypse).
Book List
Textbooks
Richard Bauckham. Gospel of Glory: Major Themes in Johannine Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker 2015. ISBN 978-0-8010-9612-9
Raymond Brown. An Introduction to the Gospel of John. Ed. By Francis Moloney. NewYork: Doubleday, 2003. ISBN 0-385-50722-4
Michael Gorman. Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1-60608-560-8
Robert Kysar. John the Maverick Gospel, 3rd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007. ISBN 0-664-23056-3
Other Readings
Weekly required readings are listed in the syllabus and the a select bibliography is provided for further research as follows:
A Select Bibliography for the Johannine Literature (-2020)
The Gospel of John: Critical Commentaries
* Christian Classics on Internet: www.ccel.org; www.newadvent.com
1970 Brown, Raymond E. The Gospel according to John. 2 vols. AB. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966, 1970.
1971 Bultmann, Rudolf. The Gospel of John: A Commentary. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1971.
1978 Barrett, C. K. The Gospel According to St. John. 2nd ed., Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978.
1998 Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of John. Collegeville: Liturgical, 1998.
2012 Bruner, Frederick. The Gospel of John: A Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012.
2017 Beutler, Johannes. A Commentary on The Gospel of John. (tr. Michael Tait). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017.
Major Studies
1953 Dodd, C. H. The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953.
1979 Brown, Raymond E. The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, Loves, and Hates of an Individual Church in New Testament Times. New York: Paulist, 1979.
1979 Martyn, J. Louis. History & Theology in the Fourth Gospel. rev. enl. ed., Nashville: Abingdon, 1979.
1983 Culpepper, R. Alan. Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
1986 Ashton, John, ed. The Interpretation of John. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.
1987 Burge, Gary M. The Anointed Community: The Holy Spirit in the Johannine Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987.
1988 Rensberger, David. Johannine Faith and Liberating Community. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1988.
1992 Stibbe, M. W. G. John as Storyteller: Narrative Criticism and the Fourth Gospel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
1993 Petersen, Norman R. The Gospel of John and the Sociology of Light. Valley Forge: Trinity, 1993.
1995 Koester, Craig R. Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel: Meaning, Mystery, Community. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
1996 Ball, David M. “I Am” in John’s Gospel: Literary Function, Background and Theological Implications. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Pr., 1996.
1996 Segovia, Fernando F. (ed.) “What is John?” Readers and Readings of the Fourth Gospel. Atlanta: Scholars, 1996.
1998 Westermann, Claus. The Gospel of John in the Light of the Old Testament (tr. S. Schatzmann). Peabody: Hendrickson, 1998.
1999 Schneiders, Sandra M. Written That You May Believe: Encountering Jesus in the Fourth Gospel. New York: Crossroad, 1999.
2001 Reinhartz, Adele. Befriending the Beloved Disciple: A Jewish Reading of the Gospel of John. New York: Continuum, 2001.
2001 Thompson, Marianne. The God of the Gospel of John. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.
2002 Dube, Musa W. and Jeffrey L. Staley. John and Postcolonialism: Travel, Space and Power. London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.
2002 Kealy, Seán P. John’s Gospel and the History of Biblical Interpretation. 2 vols. Lewiston: Mellen, 2002.
2003 Brown, Raymond E. An Introduction to the Gospel of John (ed. Francis J. Moloney). New York: Doubleday, 2003.
2003 Levine, Amy-Jill. A Feminist Companion to John, 2 vols. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.
2005 Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of John: Text and Context. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
2006 Keefer, Kyle. The Branches of the Gospel of John: The Reception of the Fourth Gospel in the Early Church. London: T & T Clark, 2006.
2007 Bauckham, Richard. The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology in the Gospel of John. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.
2007 Bauckham, Richard ed. The Gospel of John and Christian Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
2007 Kysar, Robert. John the Maverick Gospel, 3rd ed. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2007.
2007 Richey, Lance. Roman Imperial Ideology and the Gospel of John. Washington DC: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2007.
2007 Thatcher, Tom, ed. What We Have Heard from the Beginning: The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007.
2007 Gench, Frances. Encounters with Jesus: Studies in the Gospel of John. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007.
2009 O’Grady, John F. Preaching the Gospel of John. New York: Paulist, 2009.
2013 Hunt, Steven, Tolmie, D. Francois & Zimmermann, Ruben, eds. Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Narrative Approaches to Seventy Figures in John. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013.
2015 Bauckham, Richard. Gospel of Glory: Major Themes in Johannine Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2015.
2017 Culpepper, R. Alan and Anderson, Paul eds. John and Judaism: A Contested Relationship in Context. Atlanta: SBL, 2017.
2017 Brown, Sherri and Skinner, Christopher, ed. Johannine Ethics: The Moral World of the Gospel and Epistle of John. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017.
2018 Porter, Stanley and Fay, Ron eds. Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation. Kregel, 2018.
2018 Lieu, Judith and de Boer, Martinus eds. Oxford Handbook of Johannine Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
2018 Koester, Craig ed. Portraits of Jesus in the Gospel of John. New York: T & T Clark, 2018.
2018 Frey, Jorg. Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel: Tradition and Narration. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2018.
2018 Frey, Jorg. The Glory of the Crucified One: Christology and Theology of the Gospel of John. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018.
The Johannine Epistles: Critical Commentaries
1982 Brown, R. E. The Epistles of John. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982.
2008 Lieu, Judith. I, II, & III John: A Commentary. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008.
2010 Von Wahlde, Urban C. The Gospel and Letters of John, Vol. 3: Commentary on the Three Johannine Letters. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.
Major Studies
1983 Malherbe, Abraham J. Aspects of Early Christianity. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
1991 Lieu, Judith. The Theology of the Johannine Epistles. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1991.
2017 彭國偉主編,《研讀本(新標點和合本)系列 – 約翰一二三書》(台灣聖經公會,2017)。
The Book of Revelation: Critical Commentaries
1991 Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. Revelation: Vision of A Just World. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
1993 Bauckham, Richard. The Theology of the Book of Revelation. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1993.
1994 Court, John M. Revelation. Sheffield: JSOT, 1994.
1996 Richard, Pablo. Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996.
1997 Aune, David. Revelation. 3 vols. Dallas: Word Book, 1997-98.
1999 Beale, Gregory. The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
2000 Malina, Bruce J. and John J. Pilch. Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Revelation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.
2003 Witherington III, Ben. Revelation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003
2004 Kovac, Judith and Christopher Rowland. Revelation: The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Major Studies
1987 Boesak, Allan A. Comfort and Protest: The Apocalypse from a South African Perspective. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.
1990 Thompson, Leonard. The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
1991 Peterson, Eugene. Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
1993 Bauckham, Richard. The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Theology of Revelation. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993.
1995 Moyise, Steve. The Old Testament in the Book of Revelation. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1995.
1999 González, Justo L. For the Healing of the Nations: The Book of Revelation in an Age of Cultural Conflict. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1999.
2005 Blount, Brian K. Can I Get a Witness? Reading Revelation through African American Culture. Louisville: WJK, 2005.
2011 Labahn, Michael and Lehtipuu, Outi, eds. Imagery in the Book of Revelation. Leuven: Peeters, 2011.
2012 Pagels, Elaine. Revelations, Visions, Prophecy & Politics in the Book of Revelation. New York: Penguin Books, 2012.
2012 Hays, Richard and Stefan Alkier, eds. Revelation and the Politics of Apocalyptic Interpretation. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012.
2013 Chilton, Bruce. Visions of the Apocalypse: Receptions of John’s Revelation in Western Imagination. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013.
2014 Stevens, Gerald. Revelation: The Past and Future of John’s Apocalypse. Eugene: Pickwick, 2014.
2017 Gorman, Michael. Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017.
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