Edwin Abbott’s older Johannine Grammar (Black, 1906) is openly available as a full-text PDF from Google Books.
While Abbott certainly isn’t fully up to date, the volume does still have some very helpful information.
Tag: John
Daily Gleanings: Martha (8 October 2019)
In a series of guest posts, Elizabeth Schrader discusses the possibility of Martha’s being an interpolation into John’s gospel (1, 2, 3).
These posts have had some good comment activity in themselves. In addition Tommy Wasserman’s response to this series has itself now generated 90 additional comments. Not all the comments address the substance of Schrader’s proposal, but several do carefully follow up on some of the technical elements involved in it.
Daily Gleanings: New Publications (21 August 2019)
Newly out from Lexham Press is Kevin Vanhoozer’s Hearers and Doers: A Pastor’s Guide to Making Disciples Through Scripture and Doctrine. According to the publisher,
The value of sound doctrine is often misunderstood by the modern church. While it can be dry and dull, when it flows from the story of Scripture, it can be full of life and love. This kind of doctrine, steeped in Scripture, is critical for disciple-making. And it’s often overlooked by modern pastors.
In Hearers and Doers, Kevin Vanhoozer makes the case that pastors, as pastor-theologians, ought to interpret Scripture theologically to articulate doctrine and help cultivate disciples. scriptural doctrine is vital to the life of the church, and local pastor-theologians should be the ones delivering it to their communities.
The volume is now available at Amazon and other retailers. It is also available via Hoopla for if you have access to that service via your local public library.
In the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Jason Ripley discusses “Glorious Death, Imperial Rome and the Gospel of John.” He summarizes,
This paper attends to the multifaceted way in which John both embraces and subverts Roman imperial values in its presentation of Jesus’ glorious death, and it situates the Fourth Gospel within the ideological complexity of
the early imperial period as a means of more precisely discerning how the Gospel of John relates to Roman imperialism. (34)
For the full essay, see the JGRChJ website.
Stevens, John 9.38–39a
Chris Stevens has the latest article in the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, “John 9.38-39a: A Scribal Interjection for Literary Reinforcement.”
Lightfoot, Works
Rob Bradshaw has collected John Pitman’s 13-volume set of John Lightfoot’s works.
Among other things, Lightfoot’s works include a series of “Hebrew and Talmudical Exercitations” on Matthew–1 Corinthians (i.e., discussions of texts in light of select Talmudic and other Jewish literary parallels).
Via a convenient master table of contents page, the set is available in one PDF file per printed volume.
Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (October 31, 2012)
The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:
New Testament and Cognate Studies
- Jo-Ann A. Brant, John, reviewed by Matthew Gordley
- Bart B. Bruehler, A Public and Political Christ: The Social-Spatial Characteristics of Luke 18:35–19:43 and the Gospel as a Whole in Its Ancient Context, reviewed by John Cowan
- Jaime Clark-Soles, Engaging the Word: The New Testament and the Christian Believer, reviewed by Ronald Witherup
- Gerald J. Donker, The Text of the Apostolos in Athanasius of Alexandria, reviewed by Justin A. Mihoc
- Craig A. Evans, Jesus and His World: The Archaeological Evidence, reviewed by Panayotis Coutsoumpos
- Charles W. Hedrick, Unlocking the Secrets of the Gospel according to Thomas: A Radical Faith for a New Age, reviewed by William Arnal
- Josep Rius-Camps and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger, The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition, Volume 4: Acts 18.24–28.31: Rome, reviewed by Vaughn CroweTipton
- Christopher D. Stanley, ed., The Colonized Apostle: Paul in Postcolonial Eyes, reviewed by Steed Davidson
Second Temple Judaism
- Heinz-Josef Fabry and Ulrich Dahmen, eds., Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten, reviewed by Johann Cook
- Gard Granerød, Abraham and Melchizedek: Scribal Activity of Second Temple Times in Genesis 14 and Psalm 110, reviewed by Albert Hogeterp