This volume brings together twenty-two essays on the Gospel and the
Epistles of John, published in the period 1980-2014. They are the fruit
of a lifelong fascination with the Johannine literature, first with the
Gospel, later also with the Epistles.




The first twelve chapters concern themes from Johannine literature:
translation, theological issues, use and significance of the Old
Testament and of Jewish tradition, and introductory questions concerning
John’s Epistles. The next ten chapters are studies of individual
passages from Gospel and Epistles, with a special interest in passages
in which interpretation of Scripture figures prominently.




Together, the chapters show that a Christology centring on the human
being Jesus as the only revealer of God is the heart of Johannine
theology, that the Jewish Scriptures are used in John’s Gospel to
legitimate Jesus as God’s revealer, and that this Gospel is a writing
that claims to constitute a new Holy Scripture.