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.