Religion:Johannine literature

Short description: New Testament works traditionally attributed to John the Apostle or to the Johannine community

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. They are usually dated to the period c. AD 60–110, with a minority of scholars such as John AT Robinson offering the earliest of these datings.

List

A Syriac Christian rendition of St. John the Evangelist, from the Rabbula Gospels, 6th century.

Johannine literature is traditionally considered to include the following works:

• The Gospel of John
• The Johannine epistles
  • The First Epistle of John
  • The Second Epistle of John
  • The Third Epistle of John
• The Book of Revelation

Authorship

Of these five books, the only one that explicitly identifies its author as a "John" is Revelation. Modern scholarship generally rejects the idea that this work is written by the same author as the other four documents. The gospel identifies its author as the disciple whom Jesus loved, commonly identified with John the Evangelist since the end of the first century.

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.

See also

• Apocryphon of John
• Second Apocalypse of John

Sources

• Bruce, Frederick; Cain, Seymour; Davis, H. Grady; Faherty, Robert; Flusser, David (2012), "Biblical Literature", Encyclopædia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/64496/biblical-literature/73464/The-Johannine-Letters-I-II-and-III-John 
• Koester, Craig R. (2015). Revelation: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries. 38A. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300216912. https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctvBAAAQBAJ. 
• Moloney, Francis; Harrington, Daniel (1998), Gospel of John, Collegeviille: Liturgical Press, ISBN 978-0-8146-5806-2, https://books.google.com/books?id=2xDRFYKldboC, retrieved 2012-11-26 

Bibliography

• Mitchell, Margaret M.; Young, Frances M., eds (2008). "Part II: The Jesus Movements – Johannine Christianity". The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 1: Origins to Constantine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 125–143. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521812399.008. ISBN 9781139054836. https://books.google.com/books?id=6UTfmw_zStsC&pg=PA125. 
• 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.). Minneapolis: Fortress Press. pp. 129–156. doi:10.2307/j.ctvcb5b9q.15. ISBN 978-1-5064-5711-6. OCLC 1082543536. https://books.google.com/books?id=3MSHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA129. 
• de Boer, Martinus C.; Lieu, Judith M., eds (2018). "The Story of the Johannine Community and its Literature". The Oxford Handbook of Johannine Studies. Oxford and New York City: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739982.013.4. ISBN 9780198739982. 
• Byers, Andrew J. (2017). "The Johannine Vision of Community: Trends, Approaches, and ‘Narrative Ecclesiology’". Ecclesiology and Theosis in the Gospel of John. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 3–24. doi:10.1017/9781316823750.002. ISBN 9781316823750. 
• Doole, J. Andrew (March 2021). "To Be 'An Out-of-the-Synagoguer'". Journal for the Study of the New Testament (SAGE Publications) 43 (3): 389–410. doi:10.1177/0142064X20973905. ISSN 1745-5294. 
• Ferreira, Johan (1998). Johannine Ecclesiology. The Library of New Testament Studies. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN 9780567286833. https://books.google.com/books?id=IO3UAwAAQBAJ. 
• Hill, Charles E. (2005). "Part III: The Evidence for a Johannine Corpus". The Johannine Corpus in the Early Church. Oxford and New York City: Oxford University Press. pp. 447–464. doi:10.1093/0199264589.003.0009. ISBN 9780199264582. OCLC 475098055. 
• Avis, Paul, ed (2018). "The Johannine Vision of the Church". The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology. Oxford and New York City: Oxford University Press. pp. 98–118. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199645831.013.23. ISBN 9780199645831. https://books.google.com/books?id=oWhiDwAAQBAJ. 
• Méndez, Hugo (March 2020). "Did the Johannine Community Exist?". Journal for the Study of the New Testament (SAGE Publications) 42 (3): 350–374. doi:10.1177/0142064X19890490. ISSN 1745-5294. 
• Porter, Stanley E.; Ong, Hughson T., eds (2015). "The Gospel from a Specific Community but for All Christians: Understanding the Johannine Community as a “Community of Practice”". The Origins of John's Gospel. Johannine Studies. 2. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. pp. 101–123. doi:10.1163/9789004303164_007. ISBN 978-90-04-30316-4. 
• Aune, David E., ed (2010). "Johannine Literature: The Gospel and Letters of John". The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 344–372. doi:10.1002/9781444318937.ch20. ISBN 9781444318937. 
• Krans, Jan; Lietaert Peerbolte, L. J.; Smit, Peter-Ben et al., eds (2013). "Forging a New Identity: Johannine Rhetoric and the Audience of the Fourth Gospel". Paul, John, and Apocalyptic Eschatology: Studies in Honour of Martinus C. de Boer. Novum Testamentum: Supplements. 149. Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 123–134. doi:10.1163/9789004250369_009. ISBN 978-90-04-25026-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=MoKxIeOTkqYC&pg=PA123.