Johannine literature
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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.[1] They are usually dated to the period c. AD 60–110, with a minority of scholars, including Anglican bishop John Robinson, offering the earliest of these datings.
List
Johannine literature is traditionally considered to include the following works:[2]
- The Gospel of John
- The Johannine epistles
- The Book of Revelation
Authorship
Of these five books, the only one that explicitly
romanized: Iōannēs) is Revelation. Modern scholarship generally rejects the idea that this work is written by the same author as the other four documents.[3] The gospel identifies its author as the disciple whom Jesus loved, commonly identified with John the Evangelist since the end of the first century.[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.[5][6]
See also
References
- ^ Bruce et al. 2012, The Johannine Letters: I, II, and III John
- ^ Moloney & Harrington 1998, p. 1
- ^ Bruce et al. 2012, The Johannine Letters: I, II, and III John
- ^ Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History Book iii. Chapter xxiii.
- ISBN 978-0-87484-696-6.
Although ancient traditions attributed to the Apostle John the Fourth Gospel, the Book of Revelation, and the three Epistles of John, modern scholars believe that he wrote none of them.
- ISBN 978-0-8146-5999-1.
Works cited
- Bruce, Frederick; Cain, Seymour; Davis, H. Grady; Faherty, Robert; Flusser, David (2012), "Biblical Literature", Encyclopædia Britannica
- Moloney, Francis; Harrington, Daniel (1998), Gospel of John, Collegeviille: Liturgical Press, ISBN 978-0-8146-5806-2, retrieved 2012-11-26
Further reading
- ISBN 9781139054836.
- Bellinzoni, Arthur J. (25 February 2000). The Early Christian Community: From Diversity to Unity to Orthodoxy. Lecture delivered to the Wells College Faculty Club.
- Black, C. Clifton; Smith, D. Moody; Spivey, Robert A., eds. (2019) [1969]. "John: The Gospel of Jesus' Glory". Anatomy of the New Testament (8th ed.). S2CID 242455133.
- de Boer, Martinus C. (2018). "The Story of the Johannine Community and its Literature". In de Boer, Martinus C.; S2CID 189193694.
- Byers, Andrew J. (2017). "The Johannine Vision of Community: Trends, Approaches, and 'Narrative Ecclesiology'". Ecclesiology and Theosis in the Gospel of John. ISBN 9781316823750.
- Doole, J. Andrew (March 2021). "To Be 'An Out-of-the-Synagoguer'". S2CID 228846103.
- Ferreira, Johan (1998). Johannine Ecclesiology. The Library of New Testament Studies. LCCN 98156774.
- Hill, Charles E. (2005). "Part III: The Evidence for a Johannine Corpus". The Johannine Corpus in the Early Church. OCLC 475098055.
- Koester, Craig R. (2015). Revelation: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. ISBN 9780300216912.
- ISBN 9780199645831.
- Méndez, Hugo (March 2020). "Did the Johannine Community Exist?". S2CID 216330794.
- Ong, Hughson T. (2015). "The Gospel from a Specific Community but for All Christians: Understanding the Johannine Community as a "Community of Practice"". In ISSN 2214-2800.
- ISBN 9781444318937.
- S2CID 171267332.