Introduces the Johannine Writings as a whole, illuminating their historical and theological features and their importance within the New Testament canon.

The highly popular Sheffield New Testament Guides are being reissued in a new format, grouped together and prefaced by one of the best known of contemporary Johannine scholars. This new format is designed to ensure that these authoritative introductions remain up to date and accessible to seminary and university students of the New Testament while offering a broader theological and literary context for their study. Alan Culpepper introduces the Johannine Writings as a whole, illuminating their distinctive historical and theological features and their importance within the New Testament canon.

"This volume provides a useful introduction to the corpus as a whole that, one hopes, will entice readers to pursue their study of the Johannine literature in more depth." -Adele Reinhartz, Religious Studies Review