An authoritative Handbook on the Johannine Literature with contributions from leading specialists in the field. An essential work of reference for students of the New Testament, as well as for those with a more general interest in Biblical literature, while also providing a valuable resource for more advanced readers.

Judith Lieu is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity Emerita at the University of Cambridge, and taught previously at King's College London and Macquarie University, Sydney. She has researched and published extensively in the Johannine Literature and in the formation of early Christianity in the second century.
Martinus C. de Boer is Professor of New Testament Emeritus, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. He taught earlier at the University of Manchester in England and at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey, USA. His primary areas of research and publication have been the Letters of Paul and the Johannine Literature.

• Abbreviations


• List of Contributors


• 1: Judith M. Lieu and Martinus C. de Boer: Introduction


• 2: H. A. G. Houghton: The Text of the Gospel and Letters of John


• 3: Michael Labahn: Literary Sources of the Gospel and Letters of John


• 4: Harold W. Attridge: John and Other Gospels


• 5: Martinus C. de Boer: The Story of the Johannine Community and its Literature


• 6: Tom Thatcher: The Beloved Disciple, the Evangelist, and the Authorship of the Gospel of John


• 7: Urban C. Von Wahlde: Archaeology and History in the Fourth Gospel


• 8: Adele Reinhartz: The Jews of the Fourth Gospel


• 9: Gitte Buch-Hansen: The Johannine Literature in a Greek Context


• 10: Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer: The Johannine Literature and Contemporary Jewish Literature


• 11: Alastair H. B. Logan: The Johannine Literature and the Gnostics


• 12: Jo-Ann A. Brant: The Fourth Gospel as Narrative and Drama


• 13: Warren Carter: Ideological Readings of the Fourth Gospel


• 14: Colleen Conway: Gender and the Fourth Gospel


• 15: Philip S. Esler: Social-Scientific Readings of the Gospel and Letters of John


• 16: Dorothy A. Lee: Symbolism and Signs in the Fourth Gospel


• 17: Jörg Frey: Dualism and the World in the Gospel and Lettters of John


• 18: Ruben Zimmermann: Eschatology and Time in the Gospel of John


• 19: Udo Schnelle: The Person of Jesus in the Gospel of John


• 20: Jean Zumstein: The Purpose of the Ministry and Death of Jesus in the Gospel of John


• 21: Catrin H. Williams: Faith, Life, and the Spirit in the Gospel of John


• 22: Jan van der Watt: Ethics in Community in the Gospel and Letters of John


• 23: Bruce G. Schuchard: Temple, Festivals, and Scripture in the Gospel of John


• 24: Judith M. Lieu: The Johannine Literature and the Canon


• 25: William Lamb: Johannine Commentaries in the Early Church