A Commentary on the Letters of John
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A Commentary on the Letters of John

An Intra-Jewish Approach

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eBook - ePub

A Commentary on the Letters of John

An Intra-Jewish Approach

About this book

The long history of interpretation of the three Johannine letters has been largely characterized, at least since Irenaeus in the late second century, by the assumption that the Elder was addressing the Gnostic heresy. In recent years, particularly with the work of Raymond Brown, attention has been focused on the internal schism within the Johannine (or Beloved Disciple's) community, thus taking the first epistle as a corrective to secessionists' misguided attempts to read the Gospel of John in an advanced, spiritualizing manner.Birger Olsson returns to a less common perspective, one that views the crisis facing the Elder as a wholly intra-Jewish problem. The Johannine community comprised Jewish believers who regarded Jesus as the long-promised Messiah of Israel, but at some point in the community's life, under the leadership of one Diotrephes, some members of the community chose to reject this conviction and to entice other members to do likewise. Olsson anchors his thoroughgoing interpretation of the three letters in this conflict among Jewish Christians over the nature of the Messiah and the renewal of Israel's ancient covenant. Among other things, this implies that the letters were written in reverse order of their numbering.

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Information

Publisher
Pickwick Publications
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781621898337
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction
  5. Part 1: Third John
  6. Third John: In or Out of the Jewish Community
  7. Part 2: Second John
  8. Second John: The Family of Truth and Love
  9. Part 3: First John
  10. Chapter 1: 1 John 1:1–4: Divine Life, Divine Fellowship, Divine Joy
  11. Chapter 2: 1 John 1:5—2:2: A New Fellowship with God and Its Requirements
  12. Chapter 3: 1 John 2:3–11: A Renewed Covenant with God and its Consequences
  13. Chapter 4: 1 John 2:12–17: Comfort and Admonition
  14. Chapter 5: 1 John 2:18–27: Schism in the New Community
  15. Chapter 6: 1 John 2:28—3:10: Children of God and Children of the Devil
  16. Chapter 7: 1 John 3:11–24: Love One Another
  17. Chapter 8: 1 John 4:1–6: Test Every Preacher
  18. Chapter 9: 1 John 4:7–21: God is Love
  19. Chapter 10: 1 John 5:1–12: Faith, Love, Begetting, Victory, and Eternal Life
  20. Chapter 11: 1 John 5:13–21: Jesus, the True God and Eternal Life
  21. Chapter 12: The Johannine Letters as a Whole
  22. Appendices
  23. Appendix 1: Hospitality
  24. Appendix 2: Itinerant Brothers
  25. Appendix 3: The Truth
  26. Appendix 4: House Churches
  27. Appendix 5: We in the Johannine Letters
  28. Appendix 6: Life, Eternal Life
  29. Appendix 7: Expiation and Forgiveness
  30. Appendix 8: He: God, Jesus, or Both
  31. Appendix 9: A Renewed Covenant
  32. Appendix 10: What You Heard from the Beginning
  33. Appendix 11: Begotten/Born of God
  34. Appendix 12: They Cannot Sin
  35. Appendix 13: Cain as the Devil’s Son
  36. Appendix 14: Jesus as Messiah, God’s Son
  37. Appendix 15: God in Them and They in God
  38. Appendix 16: God is Love
  39. Appendix 17: By Water and Blood
  40. Appendix 18: Testify
  41. Appendix 19: Sin that Leads to Death
  42. Annotated Bibliography