Sunday, February 24, 2008

Here are some important works on the Gospel of John

Important Works on the Fourth Gospel

Background
•John Ashton, Understanding the Fourth Gospel.
•Richard Bauckham, ed., The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences
•James Charlesworth, John and the Dead Sea Scrolls
•R. Alan Culpepper and C. Clifton Black.eds., Exploring the Gospel of John
•C. H. Dodd, The Interpretation of the Fourth *
•James Dunn’s article, “Let John be John: A Gospel for its Time”,
•R. Kysar’s The Fourth Evangelist and His Gospel.
•Stephen Motyer, Your Father the Devil? A New Approach to John and the Jews
•John Painter’, John: Witness and Theologian
•John W. Pryor, John: Evangelist of the Covenant People.
•Stephen Smalley’s book, John: Evangelist and Interpreter,
•D. Moody Smith, The Theology of the Gospel of John,

Commentaries
•C. K. Barrett’s, The Gospel According to John *
•G. R. Beasley-Murray, John, *
•Raymond Brown, The Gospel According to John (Two volumes)
•F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John *
•D. A. Carson, The Gospel According to John
•Frank Cox, According to John *
•Culpepper’s, Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel.
•C. H. Dodd, The Interpretation of the Fourth *
•Jonathan D. Huntzinger, John
•Craig, S. Keener , John (Two volumes)
•Craig A. Evans, Word and Glory. On The Exegetical and Theological Background of John’s Prologue.
•Kostenberger, Andreas J. John (BECT) *
•Barnabas Lindars, The Gospel of John,
•David Lipscomb, A commentary on The Gospel of John, *
•Francis J. Moloney, Belief in the Word (Two volumes- John 1-4 & Signs and Shadows: 5-12).
•Morris, Leon Morris, The Gospel According to John *
•H. Odeberg’s The Fourth Gospel
•Mark W. G. Stibbe, John’s Gospel
•C. H. Talbert’s, Reading John
•Merrill C. Tenney, John The Gospel of Belief *
•Elmer Towns, The Gospel of John Believe and Live *
•Ben Witherington’s John’s Wisdom.

History and Historicity
•Craig Blomberg, The Reliability of the Gospel of John
•C. H. Dodd’s book, Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel
•John A. T. Robinson, The Priority of John.
•The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology in the Gospel of John (Baker Academic, 2007)

Authorship
•Thomas L. Brodie, The Quest for the Origin of John’s Gospel: A Source-Oriented Approach.
•D.A. Carson, Douglas J. Moo, and Leon Morris, An Introduction to the New Testament
•James Charlesworth, The Beloved Disciple: Whose Witness Validates the Gospel of John? Sources
•Denaux, ed., John and the Synoptics,
•R. T. Fortna, The Gospel of Signs: A Reconstruction of the Narrative Source Underlying the Fourth Gospel,
•Martin Hengel’s, The Johannine Question,
•Barnabas Lindars, Behind the Fourth Gospel,
•D. Moody Smith, John Among the Gospels: The Relationship in Twentieth-Century Research.
•D. Moody Smith, The Composition and Order of the Fourth Gospel & Johannine Christianity: Essays on its Setting, Sources, and Theology
•Urban C. von Wahlde, The Fourth Gospel and its Predecessor and Earliest Version of John’s Gospel: Recovering the Gospel of Signs.

The Johannine Community
•Raymond Brown, The Community of the Beloved Disciple
•Oscar Cullmann, The Johannine Circle
•Bill Domeris, “Christology and Community"
•J. Louis Martyn’s History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel
•David Rensberger, Johannine Faith and Liberating Community
•Fernando F. Segovia, “The Significance of Social Location in Reading John’s Story”
•Urban C. von Wahlde, “Community in Conflict: The History and Social Context of the Johannine Community”

Theology
•The Gospel of John and Christian Theology Richard Bauckham (editor), Carl Mosser (editor) *
•Peder Borgen, “God’s Agent in the Fourth Gospel”
•Delbert Burkett, The Son of the Man in the Gospel of John.
•Maurice Casey, From Jewish Prophet to Gentile God.
•James Dunn, Christology in the Making
•J. Harris, Jesus as ‘God’
•Lars Hartman, “Johannine Jesus-Belief and Monotheism”,
•E. Harvey, “Christ as Agent”
•William Loader, The Christology of the Fourth Gospel: Structure and Issues,
•Wayne Meeks, “Equal to God”
•Wayne A. Meeks, “The Man from Heaven in Johannine Sectarianism”.
•Maarten Menken, “The Christology of the Fourth Gospel: A Survey of Recent Research”
•Francis J. Moloney, The Johannine Son of Man
•Jerome Neyrey, An Ideology of Revolt: John’s Christology in Social-Science Perspective.
•Robert Rhea, The Johannine Son of Man
•Marianne M. Thompson, The Humanity of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel

Other Related Books with insight into the Gospel of John
•Andrew Murray, The True Vine *
•T Austin Sparks, Discipleship in the School of Christ *
•T Austin Sparks, The School of Christ *
•Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament, Volume II (The writings of John) *
•Bruce Wilkinson, Secrets of the Vine *


I found many these on the "Christ my righteousness" blog written by Celucien L. Joseph and have added or subtracted some of my own.

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