Walter Schmithals en die Johannese Geskrifte

Abstract

Walter Schmithals and the Johannine literatureThe article developed from what was originally intended to be a review of Walter Schmithals’s book Johannesevangelium und Johannesbriefe: Forschungsgeshichteund Analyse. Schmithals has since amended some of his earlier views and now presents a historical-critical exegetical summary of the Johannine scriptures. He makes a distiction between the fundamental gospel on the one hand and the gospel and the letters on the other. The prologue and the beloved disciple redaction also receive attention.