The Johannine Community in Contemporary Debate

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Christopher W. Skinner and Christopher Seglenieks
Chapter 1: The Rise, Demise, and Afterlives of the Johannine Community
Christopher W. Skinner
Part I: New Approaches to the Johannine Community
Chapter 2: Reading the Johannine Community in the Letters: A Method
Christopher Seglenieks
Chapter 3: The Language of John: Idiolect, Sociolect, Antilanguage, and Textual Community
David A. Lamb
Chapter 4: Disentangling "Mom's Spaghetti": A Socio-Cognitive Approach to the Complexity of the Johannine Community
Christopher Porter
Chapter 5: Triangulating a Johannine Community from John 18:28-19:22
Laura J. Hunt
Chapter 6: The Johannine Community and the Johannine Community Vision: Historical Reflection, Rhetorical Construction, and Narrative Ecclesiology
Andrew J. Byers
Chapter 7: Renewing Johannine Historical Criticism: A Proposal
Hugo Méndez
Chapter 8: The Legacy of the Beloved Disciple: The Johannine Letters as Epistolary Fiction
Elizabeth J. B. Corsar
Part II: The Way Forward? Responses to the Proposals
Chapter 9: Who Are the Children of God? Rhetoric, Memory, and Creating Communities with the Johannine Writings
Alicia D. Myers
Chapter 10: The Johannine Situation-An Advance over Imagined Communities
Paul N. Anderson
Chapter 11: Seeing with the Eyes and Hearing with the Ears: Community Hypotheses in Johannine Scholarship
Adele Reinhartz
Bibliography
About the Contributors