“The Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation is a wonderful introduction to the fascinating world that is the New Testament study of John’s gospel. Tracing the general history of the gospel’s treatment, and focusing on the contribution of several key scholars, this book also traces the discussions that drive the gospel’s study and how best to read it. The gospel of John has been an outlier in Jesus studies. This work explains why that should not be so, and what one must pay attention to in reading this crucial gospel. It is well worth a careful read.” -- Darrell L. Bock, Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary
“This is a very worthwhile volume, because instead of viewing ‘modern interpretation’ as an abstraction, it looks at eight, carefully chosen modern interpreters, with their whole careers and scholarly contributions in view—not merely their work on John’s gospel. Three of them (Rudolf Bultmann, C.H. Dodd, and Raymond E. Brown) are obvious choices. Five others have been either half forgotten (B.F. Westcott), unfairly neglected or underappreciated (Adolf Schlatter and Leon Morris), dismissed as idiosyncratic (John A.T. Robinson), or pigeonholed as a ‘mere’ literary critic (Alan Culpepper). They all deserve better, and this collection calls attention, once again, to their substantial contributions. A much needed and promising correction. Thank you, Stan Porter and Ron Fay and your authors!” -- J. Ramsey Michaels, Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus, Missouri State University, Springfield
“In these valuable treatments of eight leading scholars over the last century or more, diverse approaches to the gospel of John in modern scholarship are here laid out in clear and helpful ways. Given the hugely diverse ways that top scholars have engaged and addressed John's notorious riddles (theological, historical, literary), a collection such as this provides interpreters a helpful guide in sorting out such subjects as John's authorship, composition, relation(s) to the Synoptics, situation, and meaning. New Testament readers and scholars alike are thus indebted to Stanley Porter and Ron Fay for gathering this fine collection, which shows that as much as some things change in biblical scholarship, many others remain the same." -- Paul N. Anderson, Professor of Biblical and Quaker Studies, George Fox University
“Here is an extremely well chosen collection of vignettes of major Johannine scholars from the late 1800s to the present. Not only do we learn of their contributions and significance, but we get a feel for their lives and social contexts. This is exemplary scholarship modeled in a fashion not quite paralleled anywhere else. If the series this volume inaugurates can continue this quality of offering, it will be of extraordinary value.” -- Craig L. Blomberg, Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Denver Seminary
