Studies in John’s Gospel and Epistles: Collected Essays

This volume brings together twenty-two essays on the Gospel and the

Epistles of John, published in the period 1980-2014. They are the fruit

of a lifelong fascination with the Johannine literature, first with the

Gospel, later also with the Epistles.

The first twelve chapters concern themes from Johannine literature:

translation, theological issues, use and significance of the Old

Testament and of Jewish tradition, and introductory questions concerning

John’s Epistles. The next ten chapters are studies of individual

passages from Gospel and Epistles, with a special interest in passages

in which interpretation of Scripture figures prominently.

Together, the chapters show that a Christology centring on the human

being Jesus as the only revealer of God is the heart of Johannine

theology, that the Jewish Scriptures are used in John’s Gospel to

legitimate Jesus as God’s revealer, and that this Gospel is a writing

that claims to constitute a new Holy Scripture.