Johannine literature

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, including Anglican bishop John Robinson, offering the earliest of these datings.

List

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 "[God's] servant John" (Ancient Greek:Ἰωάννης,romanized:Iōannēs) 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

Works cited

Further reading

• Attridge, Harold W. (2008). . In Mitchell, Margaret M.; Young, Frances M. (eds.). The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 1: Origins to Constantine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.125–143. doi:. ISBN9781139054836.
• Bellinzoni, Arthur J. (25 February 2000). . Lecture delivered to the Wells College Faculty Club.
• Black, C. Clifton; Smith, D. Moody; Spivey, Robert A., eds. (2019) [1969]. . Anatomy of the New Testament (8thed.). Minneapolis: Fortress Press. pp.129–156. doi:. ISBN978-1-5064-5711-6. OCLC. S2CID.
• de Boer, Martinus C. (2018). "The Story of the Johannine Community and its Literature". In de Boer, Martinus C.; Lieu, Judith M. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Johannine Studies. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. doi:. ISBN9780198739982. LCCN. S2CID.
• 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:. ISBN9781316823750.
• Doole, J. Andrew (March 2021). . Journal for the Study of the New Testament. 43 (3). SAGE Publications: 389–410. doi:. ISSN. S2CID.
• Ferreira, Johan (1998). . The Library of New Testament Studies. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN9780567286833. LCCN.
• Hill, Charles E. (2005). "Part III: The Evidence for a Johannine Corpus". The Johannine Corpus in the Early Church. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp.447–464. doi:. ISBN9780199264582. OCLC.
• Koester, Craig R. (2015). . The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries. Vol.38A. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN9780300216912.
• Lincoln, Andrew T. (2018). . In Avis, Paul (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp.98–118. doi:. ISBN9780199645831.
• Méndez, Hugo (March 2020). . Journal for the Study of the New Testament. 42 (3). SAGE Publications: 350–374. doi:. ISSN. S2CID.
• Ong, Hughson T. (2015). "The Gospel from a Specific Community but for All Christians: Understanding the Johannine Community as a "Community of Practice"". In Porter, Stanley E.; Ong, Hughson T. (eds.). The Origins of John's Gospel. Johannine Studies. Vol.2. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. pp.101–123. doi:. ISBN978-90-04-30316-4. ISSN.
• Painter, John (2010). "Johannine Literature: The Gospel and Letters of John". In Aune, David E. (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. pp.344–372. doi:. ISBN9781444318937.
• Reinhartz, Adele (2013). . In Krans, Jan; Lietaert Peerbolte, L. J.; Smit, Peter-Ben; Zwiep, Arie W. (eds.). Paul, John, and Apocalyptic Eschatology: Studies in Honour of Martinus C. de Boer. Novum Testamentum: Supplements. Vol.149. Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp.123–134. doi:. ISBN978-90-04-25026-0. ISSN. S2CID.