{"id":10585,"date":"2012-11-08T15:16:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T20:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=10585"},"modified":"2012-11-08T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T20:16:01","slug":"textbooks-and-commentaries-on-the-gospel-of-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/11\/textbooks-and-commentaries-on-the-gospel-of-john.html","title":{"rendered":"Textbooks and Commentaries on the Gospel of John"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>\"\"Regular readers and others who know me will know that I did my doctoral dissertation on the Christology of the Gospel of John<\/a>\"\". With my primary research focus having moved elsewhere, I am delighted when I get to teach my upper-level class on the Gospel of John and return my attention there.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still trying to decide which commentary or other textbook(s) to assign for the course. Older<\/a>\"\" ones like that by Raymond Brown<\/a>\"\" are no longer readily available. The students do not have Greek, and so that rules out a few options<\/a>\"\". A commentary spanning multiple<\/a>\"\" volumes<\/a>\"\" would be excessive<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

There are a great many commentaries on the Gospel of John, and so the challenge in picking a textbook for such a course is really a matter of being spoiled for choice. There are classic ones still in print by Culpepper<\/a>\"\", Moloney<\/a>\"\", Kysar<\/a>\"\", and<\/p>\n

relatively more recent ones by O\u2019Day<\/a>\"\", Bruner<\/a>\"\" and Michaels<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"Yet most of the commentaries and other books on the Gospel of John that were published since I wrote The Only True God<\/a>\"\"<\/em> are ones that I am relatively unfamiliar<\/a>\"\" with except superficially. One exception is the textbook I used last time, Andrew Lincoln\u2019s<\/a>\"\" commentary, which students seemed to find helpful and at just the right level. Before that I used Charles Talbert\u2019s<\/a>\"\" which I regret is out of print. Jerome Neyrey\u2019s<\/a>\"\" is another that looks promising, which I haven\u2019t used for a class before, although I know Neyrey\u2019s scholarship on John well from my time as a graduate student.<\/p>\n

There are other books which I would consider if there were some way to preview them online, such as Befriending The Beloved Disciple: A Jewish Reading of the Gospel of John<\/a>\"\"<\/em>. Plus ones that take a more thematic approach (e.g. Paul Anderson\u2019s The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel: An Introduction to John<\/em><\/a>\"\" and Raymond Brown\u2019s poshumously-published Introduction<\/em><\/a>\"\") which are perhaps less useful for a course in which I plan to work through the Gospel from start to finish.<\/p>\n

And so one advantage of blogging is the possibility of crowdsourcing such dilemmas. If you\u2019ve taught or taken a course on the Gospel of John in recent years, what textbook did you use, and would you recommend it?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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