Communities in Dispute: Current Scholarship on the Johannine Epistles (Early Christianity and Its Literature)

Presenting the best work on the Johannine Epistles from a world-class gathering of scholars

This anthology includes papers presented at the McAfee School of Theology Symposium on the Johannine Epistles (2010). Contributions on the relationship between the Gospel of John and the Letters of John, Johannine theology and ethics, the concept of the Antichrist, and the role of the elder round out the collection. This is a must-have book for libraries and New Testament scholars.

Features:

• Introductory essay places the collection in context
• Articles engage the work of Raymond Brown and J. Louis Martyn
• Sixteen essays from the Book of Psalms Consultation group and invited scholars