This volume contains thirteen essays written between 1900 and today. Each of them takes as its starting point the Gospel of John as a literary unity. The volume as a whole traces literary studies of John back to the early 1900's and charts their development from then. Some of these essays are little known even to Johannine scholars. Others are recognized as classics in the field. Two of them are translations. This book is therefore a timely and indispensable resource for those interested in the history of the fourth gospel interpretation, and in examples of literary methods applied to John.
Mark W.G. Stibbe, Ph.D. (1989) in Theology, University of Nottingham, is Vicar of St. Mark's Grenoside (Sheffield, UK) and honourary lecturer in the Dept. of Biblical Studies at Sheffield University. He is the author of John as Storyteller (Cambridge) and John: A Readings Commentary (Sheffield).
'...this collection is helpful and stimulating and will repay close reading.'
Bob Willoughby, Biblical Studies, 1994.
All those interested in literary and narrative approaches to John (and the Gospels as a whole), theologians, church ministers, undergraduates and post-graduates in the area of biblical studies, students of literary criticism.