Footnotes
Footnotes
I.Stephen S. Smalley, 1, 2, 3 John, WBC (Waco, Tex.: Word, 1984), p. xxxiii. For a
survey of the discussion on 1 John’s literary genre, see R. E. Brown, The Epistles of
John, AB (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982), pp. 86-92.
2.Contra Kummel, p. 437.
3.I. Howard Marshall, The Epistles of John, NICNT (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978), pp. 22-27.
4.R. Schnackenburg, Die Johannesbriefe, HTKNT (Freiburg: Herder, 1975), pp. vii-viii, 10-11. His subdivisions are less insightful.
5.The evidence is conveniently set out in A. E. Brooke, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Johannine Epistles, ICC (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1912), pp. liiff. See Brown, Epistles of John, pp. 6ff., for a slightly more skeptical view of the evidence.
6.The most comprehensive lists of linguistic similarities and dissimilarities are still found in Brooke, Johannine Epistles, pp. i-xix, 235-42, and in Robert Law, The Tests of Life (1914; reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979), pp. 341-63.
7.Vern Poythress, "The Use of the Intersentence Conjunctions De, Oun, Kai, and Asyndeton in the Gospel of John,” NovT 26 (1984): 312-34; idem, "Testing for Johannine Authorship by Examining the Use of Conjunctions,” WTJ 46 (1984): 350
69. Cf. discussion in chap. 5 on the fourth gospel.
8.John R. W. Stott, The Letters of John, TNTC (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988), pp. 21-23.
9.See esp. C. H. Dodd, The Johannine Epistles, MNTC (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1946), esp. pp. xlviiff.
10.Brooke, Johannine Epistles, p. xvi.
II.These points are argued in detail by such commentators as B. F. Westcott (The Epistles of St John [1892; reprint, Appleford: Marcham Manor, 1966], Marshall (Epistles of John), and Stott (Letters of John).
12.E. Kasemann, "Ketzer und Zeuge,” ZTK 48 (1951): 292-311.
13.In particular, J. C. O’Neill, The Puzzle of 1 John (London: SPCK, 1966); Rudolf Bultmann, The Johannine Epistles, ET Hermeneia (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1973); W. Nauck, Die Tradition und der Charakter des ersten Johannesbriefes, WUNT 3 (TQbingen: Mohr, 1957). Cf. Marshall, Epistles of John, pp. 27-30.
14.Kummel, p. 246-47, 445.
15.See Judith M. Lieu, The Second and Third Epistles of John (Edinburgh: T. & T.
Clark, 1986), pp. 64-68.
16.50 Judith M. Lieu, "‘Authority to Become Children of God’: A Study of 1 John,” NovT 23 (1981): 210-28.
17.50 F. BQchsel, Die Johannesbriefe, THNT (Leipzig: Deichert, 1933), pp. 4-5; cf. G. M. Burge, The Anointed Community: The Holy Spirit in the Johannine Tradition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987).
18.Marshall, Epistles of John, p. 18.
19.Schnackenburg, Die Johannesbriefe, pp. 19ff.
20.E.g., Brown, Epistles of John ; Smalley, 1, 2, 3 John ; Kenneth Grayston, The Johannine Epistles, NCB (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984); J. L. Houlden, The Johannine Epistles, BNTC (London: Black, 1973); Pierre Bonnard, Les epftres johanniques, CNT (Geneva: Labor & Fides, 1983); Georg Strecker, Die Johannesbriefe, KEK (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989).
21.Brown, Epistles of John, p. 103.
22.W. L. Richards, The Classification of the Greek Manuscripts of the Johannine Epistles, SBLDS 35 (Missoula, Mont.: SP, 1977).
23.B. Amphoux, "Note sur le classement des manuscrits grecs de 1 Jean,” RHPR 61 (1981): 125-35.
24.See Lieu, Second and Third Epistles, pp. 5-36.
25.E.g., Richards, Classification ; Lieu, Second and Third Epistles ; Edward Malatesta, Interiority and Covenant: A Study of είναι ev and meveiv ev in the First Letter of Saint John, AnBib 69 (Rome: BIP, 1978).
26.E.g., the commentaries by Brown, Smalley, and Strecker, and such books as John Bogaert, Orthodox and Heretical Perfectionism, SBLDS 33 (Missoula, Mont.: SP, 1977; D. Bruce Woll, Johannine Christianity in Conflict, SBLDS 60 (Chico, Calif.: SP, 1981); Rodney A. Whitacre, Johannine Polemic: The Role of Tradition and Theology, SBLDS 67 (Chico, Calif: SP, 1982).
27.See esp. chap. 5 above.
28.Childs, p. 482-85.
29.Ibid., p. 483.