John Among the Gospels

by Smith, D. Moody

• ISBN13: 9781570034466
• ISBN10: 157003446X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Summary

John's relationship to the other canonical Gospels has from Christian antiquity been the subject of serious discussion and debate. Did John know them? Did he use them as sources for his own "spiritual" gospel? If so, can his eccentricities in using them be explained? In John among the Gospels D. Moody Smith confronts these questions, describing how the relationship of the Fourth Gospel to the Synoptics has been understood, particularly in modern biblical scholarship.

John's difference from the other gospel narratives was recognized by such ancient Christian writers as Clement of Alexandria in the late second century, Origen in the early third century, and Eusebius in the early fourth century, who set the stage for opposing views of John's relation to the Synoptics. John was deemed either compatible with, if supplementary to, the other canonical Gospels, as Clement and Eusebius believed, or obviously at odds historically with the companion works, according to Origen's opposing view.

These two essential interpretive views have played out to the present day. S

Author Biography

D. Moody Smith is George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament at the Divinity School, Duke University.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	ix
Preface to the Second Edition	xiii
Preface to the First Edition	xv
John among the Gospels: The Problem and Its Earliest History	1	(12)
The Elements of the Problem	2	(4)
The Earliest Perception of the Problem	6	(7)
The Development of the Independence Theory: From Bacon to Gardner-Smith	13	(32)
The Consensus of Nineteenth-Century Criticism	13	(2)
Benjamin W. Bacon	15	(4)
Hans Windisch	19	(12)
Reaction to Windisch	31	(6)
Percival Gardner-Smith	37	(8)
The Formation of a Consensus	45	(40)
The Impact of Gardner-Smith	45	(8)
C.H. Dodd	53	(10)
After Dodd	63	(22)
Commentaries	63	(8)
Works Dealing with Johannine Narratives and Other Relevant Scholarship	71	(8)
Introduction	79	(6)
John and Luke: A Parallel Consensus	85	(26)
Julius Schniewind	88	(3)
F. C. Grant	91	(2)
John A. Bailey	93	(3)
Pierson Parker	96	(3)
F. Lamar Cribbs	99	(4)
Robert Maddox	103	(8)
The Renaissance of the Problem: Passion Narratives	111	(28)
Redaction-Critical Approaches to the Passion Narratives and the Question of a Primitive Source	113	(9)
Anton Dauer	122	(6)
Rosel Baum-Bodenbender	128	(11)
The Dissolution of a Consensus	139	(38)
M.-E Boismard	141	(6)
Frans Neirynck: His Critique of Boismard and His Own Position	147	(12)
John and Luke Again: Anton Dauer and Hans-Peter Heekerens	159	(10)
Anton Dauer	159	(6)
Hans-Peter Heekerens	165	(2)
Hartwig Thyen: A Note	167	(2)
Bruno de Solages	169	(8)
Retrospect and Prospect	177	(18)
The Character of the Comparison	177	(3)
Possibilities for Explaining the Relationship	180	(6)
Hans Weder and Karl Theodor Kleinknecht	186	(3)
Text and Canon	189	(6)
John, an Independent Gospel	195	(48)
John and the Synoptics: The Question in Light of Historical Issues	199	(4)
The Setting and Presentation of Jesus' Ministry and of His Relationships	203	(9)
John and the Synoptics in the Passion Narrative	212	(18)
The Jewish Trial	216	(3)
The Priests' Plotting	219	(3)
The Trial before Pilate	222	(2)
Jesus' Death: The Temple; Darkness at Noon; The Centurion	224	(3)
Mocking of Jesus	227	(1)
Jesus' Advance Knowledge	228	(1)
The Piercing of Jesus' Side	228	(2)
The Passion Narrative Generally	230	(4)
Conclusions	234	(9)
Selected Bibliography	243	(10)
Index of Scripture and Ancient Sources	253	(5)
Index of Modern Authors	258