James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and Director and Editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.

Preface: John's Symbolic Language: The Johannine Community and Its Jewish Background
Foreword
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Genius in the New Testament
I. Origin, Evolution, and Settings of the Gospel of John
1. Paradigm Shifts in Johannine Studies
2. The Priority of John
3. The Beloved Disciple: Criteria and Observations
4. The Historical and Social Setting of the Gospel of John in Light of the Essenes
II. John and the Historical Jesus
5. John: A Neglected Source
6. Archaeological Discoveries Supporting the Historicity of John's Traditions
III. The Gospel of John and Other Sacred Literature
John and the Dead Sea Scrolls
7. The Dualism of Qumran and the "Dualism" of John
8. An Overview of the Dead Sea Scrolls and a Revolutionary New Perspective
9. John and Qumran: Almost Seventy Years of Research
10. John's Indebtedness to Judaism and the Self-Glorification Hymn
John and Enoch
11. Did the Fourth Evangelist Know the Enoch Tradition?
John and the Odes of Solomon
12. The Odes of Solomon and the Gospel of John
13. Qumran, John, and the Odes of Solomon
IV. Symbolic Language in the Gospel of John
14. Jewish Purity Laws and the Identity of the Beloved Disciple
15. The Symbolism of the Serpent in John
16. Symbology in Johannine Christology
17. Is it Conceivable that Jesus Married Mary Magdalene?; Searching for Evidence in Johannine Traditions
18. Whence the Title Kata Ioannon: "According to John"?
Conclusion
Advances in the Study of the Fourth Gospel: A Selected Bibliography - Jolyon G. R. Pruszinski
Indexes