What We Have Heard from the Beginning

Preface: The Purpose and Plan of This BookTom Thatcher

1 Second Thoughts on the Fourth GospelJohn Ashton

Response: Why Should Historical Criticism Continue to have a Place in Johannine Studies?Wendy E. S. North

2 In Search of a New SynthesisJohannes Beutler

Response: Johannine Exegesis in Transition: Johannes Beutler's Search for a New SynthesisCarsten Claussen

3 The Scriptures and the Words and Works of JesusPeder Borgen

Response: Living Word(s) and the Bread of LifeMichael Labahn

4 Three Revolutions, a Funeral, and Glimmers of a Challenging DawnThomas L. Brodie

Response: Inspecting an Aerial Photograph of John's Engagement with SourcesCatrin H. Williams

5 Reflections Upon a Johannine PilgrimageD. A. Carson

Response: Progress and Regress in Recent Johannine Scholarship: Reflections Upon the Road AheadAndreas J. K"stenberger

6 Pursuing the ElusiveR. Alan Culpepper

Response: To What End, Methodology?Stan Harstine

7 The Gospel and the Epistles of John Read against the Background of the History of the Johannine CommunitiesMarinus de Jonge

Response: The Combination of a Literary and a Historical Approach to the Gospel of JohnPeter G. Kirchschlaeger

8 The Gospel of John and the Signs GospelRobert T. Fortna

Response: The Fourth Gospel in First-Century Media CultureTom Thatcher

9 What's the Meaning of This?: Relections Upon a Life and CareerRobert Kysar

Response: Is History History?David Rensberger

10 The Johannine Community among Jewish and Other Early Christian CommunitiesJ. Louis Martyn

Response: Reading History in the Fourth GospelAdele Reinhartz

11 Into Narrative and BeyondFrancis J. Moloney

Response: The BeyondMary Coloe

12 The Prologue and Chapter 17 of the Gospel of JohnJohn F. O'Grady

Response: The Prologue and Jesus' Final PrayerDorothy Lee

13 The Signs of the Messiah and the Quest for Eternal LifeJohn Painter

Response: The Johannine Conception of Authentic Faith as a Response to the Divine InitiativePaul N. Anderson

14 Reflecting Upon Thirty YearsSandra M. Schneiders

Response: Ideologies Past and PresentColleen Conway

15 Johannine Studies and the Geopolitical: a Reflection Upon Absence and IrruptionFernando F. Segovia

Response: Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Johannine StudiesFrancisco Lozada Jr.

16 The Problem of History in JohnD. Moody Smith

Response: Genre, Sources, and HistoryCraig S. Keener

17 Tradition, Exegetical Formation, and the Leuven HypothesisGilbert Van Belle

Response: The Leuven Hypothesis in C/catholic PerspectivePeter J. Judge

18 The Road Ahead-Three Aspects of Johannine ScholarshipUrban C. von Wahlde

Response: Combining Key Methodologies in Johannine StudiesFelix Just