Johannine Ecclesiology

249 Pages·1998·11.947 MB·English

by  Johan Ferreira

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JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
SUPPLEMENT SERIES
160
Executive Editor
Stanley E. Porter
Editorial Board
David Catchpole, R. Alan Culpepper, Margaret Davies,
James D.G. Dunn, Craig A. Evans, Stephen Fowl, Robert Fowler,
Robert Jewett, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, Robert W. Wall
Sheffield Academic Press
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 7
Abbreviations 9
1. INTRODUCTION 13
1. Justification and Purpose of the Research 13
2. Methodology Used and Plan of the Research 15
2. HISTORY OF RESEARCH 18
1. Context of Present Research 18
2. Major Advances in Scholarship 29
3. Research on Johannine Ecclesiology 35
4. Clarification of Terms 45
3. THE CONTEXT AND STRUCTURE OF JESUS' PRAYER 47
1. Introduction 47
2. Jewish Prayer and the Prayer of John 17 48
3. The Literary Context of Jesus' Prayer 58
4. The Structure of the Prayer 69
5. Thematic Overview of John 17 76
6. Conclusion 78
4. THE EXEGESIS OF JESUS' PRAYER 80
1. Introduction 80
2. Part I: Jesus Prays concerning himself (verses 1-8) 81
3. Part II: Jesus Prays concerning his Disciples (verses 9-19) 115
4. Part III: Jesus Prays concerning Future Believers
(verses 20-26) 126
5. Conclusion 135
5. THE JOHANNINE CONCEPT OF GLORY 138
1. Introduction 138
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2. Johannine Eschatology 139
3. John, The Synoptic Gospels and the Dead Sea Scrolls 140
4. Glory in the Old Testament and Pseudepigrapha 141
5. Glory in the Dead Sea Scrolls 145
6. Glory in the Gospel of John 149
7. Conclusion 161
6. THE JOHANNINE CONCEPT OF SENDING 166
1. Introduction 166
2. The Johannine Vocabulary for 'Sending' 167
3. The Religionsgeschichtliche Context of Sending in John 170
4. The Sending Concept in John 190
5. Conclusion 199
7. CONCLUSION 201
1. Johannine Ecclesiology 201
2. John's Religionsgeschtliche Context 204
Bibliography 207
Index of References 232
Index of Authors 243
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am very pleased to acknowledge the guidance and encouragement of
the following persons in the publication of this book which represents
the results of my doctoral research carried out at the University of
Queensland. Needless to say, without their generous assistance the
appearance of this book would not have been possible.
The two persons to whom I owe the greatest gratitude are Professor
J.H. Charlesworth, the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament
Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary; and Pro-
fessor M.S. Lattke, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Studies at the University of Queensland. These two scholars were most
influential in my development as a student at Princeton and at the Uni-
versity of Queensland. I thank Professor Charlesworth, one of my
thesis examiners, for his encouragement to publish this study in
the Supplement series of the Journal for the Study of the New
Testament.
My deepest appreciation also goes to Professor Lattke for acting as
my Doktorvater at the University of Queensland. Professor Lattke
provided exceptional supervision throughout my research program,
and also showed an interest in my own academic development that was
more than his duties required. I learned tremendously from his meti-
culous scholarship and immense knowledge.
In addition, I would like to thank Professor P. Allen, Dr R.E.
Strelan, Dr A. Stimpfle and Dr M. Harding. Professor Allen of the
Australian Catholic University provided encouragement through most
of my doctoral studies while I was working as her research assistant.
Dr Strelan read the final manuscript of my thesis and made valuable
suggestions for improving it. Dr Stimpfle of Augsburg University and
Dr Harding, Dean of the Australian College of Theology, not only
acted as examiners of the thesis but also gave constructive advice
towards its publication. Of course, any weakness remaining in this
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book is due to myself alone, and in no way reflects on the expertise of
these excellent scholars.
Finally, I would like the thank the staff at Sheffield Academic Press
for their expertise in preparing my manuscript for publication.
Johan Ferreira
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Brisbane, 1998
ABBREVIATIONS
AJBA Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology
AJBI Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute
AnBoll Analecta Bollandiana
B A Biblical Archaeologist
BAGD Walter Bauer, William F. Arndt, F. William Gingrich and
Frederick W. Danker, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New
Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2nd edn, 1958)
BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium
BFCT Beitrage zur Forderung christlicher Theologie
Bib Biblica
BIFA O Bulletin de I 'Institutfrangais d 'archeologie orientale
BiKi Bibel und Kirche
BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
B TB Biblical Theology Bulletin
BZ Biblische Zeitschrift
BZNW Beihefte zur ZNW
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CJT Canadian Journal of Theology
ClerR Clergy Review
CNT Commentaire du Nouveau Testament
Com(US) Communio, Spokane, Washington
CTA A. Herdner (ed.), Corpus des tablettes en cuneiformes
alphabetiques decouvertes a Ras Shamra-Ugarit de 1929 a
1939 (Paris: Imprimerie nationale Geuthner, 1963)
CurTM Currents in Theology and Mission
EBib Etudes bibliques
EDNT Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament
EstBib Estudios biblicos
ETL Ephemerides theologicae lovanienses
EvQ Evangelical Quarterly
Exc. Excerpt (in the Anthologium of Sobaeus)
ExpTim Expository Times
FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen
Testaments
HSM Harvard Semitic Monographs
HTR Harvard Theological Review
IDBSup IDB, Supplementary Volume