I II & III John


Verse-by-Verse Commentaries:

Raymond Brown, The Epistles of John (Anchor, 30), Doubleday, 1982.
Colin G. Kruse,
The Letters of John (Pillar), Eerdmans, 2000.
Rudolf Schnackenburg,
The Johannine Epistles: Introduction and Commentary, Crossroad, 1992.
Stephen S. Smalley, I, II, III John (Word Biblical Commentary), Word Books, 1984.

Monographs, Compilations, and Studies:

John Painter, John: Witness and Theologian, SPCK, 1975.
Edward Malatesta, Interiority and Covenant: A Study of eijnai ejn and menein ejn in the First Letter of Saint John (Analecta Biblica, 69),
____ Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1978.
________ The Epistles of St. John: Greek Text and English Translation Schematically Arranged, Pontifical Gregorian University, 1973.

Articles and Essays:

Donald A. Carson, "The Three Witnesses and the Eschatology of 1 John" in To Tell the Mystery: Essays on New Testament
____ Eschatology in Honor of Robert H. Gundry (JSNT Supplement, 100) ed. T. Schmidt and M. Silva, Sheffield Academic,
____ 1994: 49-71.
Robert E. Longacre, "Towards an Exegesis of 1 John Based on the Discourse Analysis of the Greek Text" in
Linguistics and
____ New Testament Interpretation: Essays in Discourse Analysis (ed. D. A. Black, et al), Broadman Press, 1992: 271-286.
Kenneth D. Tollefson, "Certainty within the Fellowship: Dialectical Discourse in 1 John,"
Biblical Theology Bulletin 29 (1999): 79-89.


More Commentaries:

Gary M. Burge, The Letters of John (NIV Application), Zondervan, 1996.
Erich Haupt, The First Epistle of St. John: A Contribution to Biblical Theology, T & T Clark, 1879.
I. Howard Marshall, The Epistles of John (NICNT), Eerdmans, 1978.
Georg Strecker, The Johannine Letters (Hermeneia), Fortress, 1993.

More Monographs:

Dietmar Neufeld, Reconceiving Texts As Speech Acts: An Analysis of I John (Biblical Interpretation, 7), Brill Academic, 1994. **1/2

More Articles:

J. A. du Rand, "A Discourse Analysis of 1 John" in Studies in the Johannine Letters (Addendum to Neotestamentica 13) ed.
____ J. A. du Rand, et al, New Testament Society of South Africaa, 1981, 1-42.
John Christopher Thomas, "The Literary Structure of 1 John," Novum Testamentum 40 (1998): 369-381.

Lars Hartman and Birger Olsson (eds.), Aspects on the Johannine Literature (Coniectanea Biblica: New Testament Series, 18), Coronet Books, 1987.