What We Have Heard from the Beginning

Tom Thatcher is Professor of Biblical Studies at Cincinnati Christian University.

Thatcher is to be congratulated for gathering such a broad and representative cross-section of luminaries in the discipline into one project. -- Craig L. Blomberg, Denver Seminary -- Bulletin for Biblical Research

• AbbreviationsPreface: The Purpose and Plan of This BookTom Thatcher1 Second Thoughts on the Fourth GospelJohn AshtonResponse: Why Should Historical Criticism Continue to have a Place in Johannine Studies?Wendy E. S. North2 In Search of a New SynthesisJohannes BeutlerResponse: Johannine Exegesis in Transition: Johannes Beutler's Search for a New SynthesisCarsten Claussen3 The Scriptures and the Words and Works of JesusPeder BorgenResponse: Living Word(s) and the Bread of LifeMichael Labahn4 Three Revolutions, a Funeral, and Glimmers of a Challenging DawnThomas L. BrodieResponse: Inspecting an Aerial Photograph of John's Engagement with SourcesCatrin H. Williams5 Reflections Upon a Johannine PilgrimageD. A. CarsonResponse: Progress and Regress in Recent Johannine Scholarship: Reflections Upon the Road AheadAndreas J. K""stenberger6 Pursuing the ElusiveR. Alan CulpepperResponse: To What End, Methodology?Stan Harstine7 The Gospel and the Epistles of John Read against the Background of the History of the Johannine CommunitiesMarinus de JongeResponse: The Combination of a Literary and a Historical Approach to the Gospel of JohnPeter G. Kirchschlaeger8 The Gospel of John and the Signs GospelRobert T. FortnaResponse: The Fourth Gospel in First-Century Media CultureTom Thatcher9 What's the Meaning of This?: Relections Upon a Life and CareerRobert KysarResponse: Is History History?David Rensberger10 The Johannine Community among Jewish and Other Early Christian CommunitiesJ. Louis MartynResponse: Reading History in the Fourth GospelAdele Reinhartz11 Into Narrative and BeyondFrancis J. MoloneyResponse: The BeyondMary Coloe12 The Prologue and Chapter 17 of the Gospel of JohnJohn F. O'GradyResponse: The Prologue and Jesus' Final PrayerDorothy Lee13 The Signs of the Messiah and the Quest for Eternal LifeJohn PainterResponse: The Johannine Conception of Authentic Faith as a Response to the Divine InitiativePaul N. Anderson14 Reflecting Upon Thirty YearsSandra M. SchneidersResponse: Ideologies Past and PresentColleen Conway15 Johannine Studies and the Geopolitical: a Reflection Upon Absence and IrruptionFernando F. SegoviaResponse: Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Johannine StudiesFrancisco Lozada Jr.16 The Problem of History in JohnD. Moody SmithResponse: Genre, Sources, and HistoryCraig S. Keener17 Tradition, Exegetical Formation, and the Leuven HypothesisGilbert Van BelleResponse: The Leuven Hypothesis in C/catholic PerspectivePeter J. Judge18 The Road Ahead-Three Aspects of Johannine ScholarshipUrban C. von WahldeResponse: Combining Key Methodologies in Johannine StudiesFelix Just