The Johannine Community in Contemporary Debate

Auteur

Christopher Seglenieks works at the Bible College of South Australia, an affiliated college of the Australian College of Theology.

Christopher W. Skinner is professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Graduate Program Director in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago.

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Few scholarly constructs have proven as influential or as durable as the Johannine community. A product of the era in New Testament studies dominated by redaction criticism, the Johannine community construct as articulated first by J. Louis Martyn and later by Raymond E. Brown emerged with an explanatory power that proved persuasive to scholars deliberating on the provenance and emergence of the Johannine literature for the next 50 years. Recent years, however, have seen this once dominant paradigm questioned by many of those working with the Gospel and Letters of John. The Johannine Community in Contemporary Debate is dedicated to exploring the current state of the question while shining a light on new and constructive proposals for understanding the emergence of the Johannine literature. Some contributions accept the idea of a Johannine Community but suggest different ways we might know about the nature of that community. Others reject the existence of a Johannine Community, suggesting alternate models for understanding the emergence of these texts. These proposals are themselves set in perspective by responses from senior scholars.

Contenu

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Christopher W. Skinner and Christopher Seglenieks

Chapter 1: The Rise, Demise, and Afterlives of the Johannine Community

Christopher W. Skinner

Part I: New Approaches to the Johannine Community

Chapter 2: Reading the Johannine Community in the Letters: A Method

Christopher Seglenieks

Chapter 3: The Language of John: Idiolect, Sociolect, Antilanguage, and Textual Community

David A. Lamb

Chapter 4: Disentangling "Mom's Spaghetti": A Socio-Cognitive Approach to the Complexity of the Johannine Community

Christopher Porter

Chapter 5: Triangulating a Johannine Community from John 18:28-19:22

Laura J. Hunt

Chapter 6: The Johannine Community and the Johannine Community Vision: Historical Reflection, Rhetorical Construction, and Narrative Ecclesiology

Andrew J. Byers

Chapter 7: Renewing Johannine Historical Criticism: A Proposal

Hugo Méndez

Chapter 8: The Legacy of the Beloved Disciple: The Johannine Letters as Epistolary Fiction

Elizabeth J. B. Corsar

Part II: The Way Forward? Responses to the Proposals

Chapter 9: Who Are the Children of God? Rhetoric, Memory, and Creating Communities with the Johannine Writings

Alicia D. Myers

Chapter 10: The Johannine Situation-An Advance over Imagined Communities

Paul N. Anderson

Chapter 11: Seeing with the Eyes and Hearing with the Ears: Community Hypotheses in Johannine Scholarship

Adele Reinhartz

Bibliography

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