TY - BOOK AU - Thatcher,Tom TI - What we have heard from the beginning: the past, present, and future of Johannine studies SN - 9781602580107 AV - BS2601 PY - 2007/// CY - Waco, Texas PB - Baylor University Press KW - Bible KW - John KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Epistles of John N1 - 1 (pages 359-389) and index; Preface : The purpose and plan of this book; Tom Thatcher --; Second thoughts on the fourth Gospel; John Ashton --; Response : Why should historical criticism continue to have a place in Johannine studies? / Wendy E.S. North --; In search of a new synthesis; Johannes Beutler --; Response : Johannine exegesis in transition : Johannes Beutler's search for a new synthesis; Carsten Claussen --; The Scriptures and the words and works of Jesus; Peder Borgen --; Response : Living word(s) and the bread of life; Michael Labahn --; Three revolutions, a funeral, and glimmers of a challenging dawn; Thomas L. Brodie --; Response : Inspecting an aerial photograph of John's engagement with sources; Catrin H. Williams --; Reflections upon a Johannine pilgrimage; D.A. Carson --; Response : Progress and regress in recent Johannine scholarship : reflections upon the road ahead; Andreas J. Kostenberger --; Pursuing the elusive; R. Alan Culpepper --; Response : To what end, methodology? / Stan Harstine --; The Gospel and the Epistles of John read against the background of the history of the Johannine communities; Marinus de Jonge --; Response : The combination of a literary and a historical approach to the Gospel of John; Peter G. Kirchschlaeger --; The Gospel of John and the signs gospel; Robert T. Fortna --; Response : The fourth Gospel in first-century media culture; Tom Thatcher --; What's the meaning of this? : reflections upon a life and career; Robert Kysar --; Response : Is history history? / David Rensberger --; The Johannine community among Jewish and other early Christian communities; J. Louis Martyn --; Response : Reading history in the fourth Gospel; Adele Reinhartz --; Into narrative and beyond; Francis J. Moloney --; Response : The beyond beckons; Mary Coloe --; The prologue and chapter 17 of the Gospel of John; John F. O'Grady --; Response : The prologue and Jesus' final prayer; Dorothy Lee --; The signs of the Messiah and the quest for eternal life; John Painter --; Response : The Johannine conception of authentic faith as a response to the divine initiative; Paul N. Anderson --; Remaining in his word : from faith to faith by way of the text; Sandra M. Schneiders --; Response : Ideologies past and present; Colleen Conway --; Johannine studies and the geopolitical : reflections upon absence and irruption; Fernando F. Segovia --; Response : Toward an interdisciplinary approach to Johannine studies; Francisco Lozada Jr. --; The problem of history in John; D. Moody Smith --; Response : Genre, sources, and history; Craig S. Keener --; Tradition, exegetical formation, and the Leuven hypothesis; Gilbert Van Belle --; Response : The Leuven hypothesis in C/catholic perspective; Peter J. Judge --; The road ahead : three aspects of Johannine scholarship; Urban C. von Wahlde --; Response : Combining key methodologies in Johannine studies; Felix Just; 2 N2 - Written in a conversational and reflective tone, these articles offer an overview of the major issues in the study of the Fourth Gospel and 1-2-3 John. What is produced is a composite of two disparate genres: the history of research and the professional memoir UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007028561.html ER -