Johannine Prologue and its Resonances

Stanley E. Porter, PhD (1988), University of Sheffield, is President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College. His most recent volume is Linguistic Descriptions of the Greek New Testament (2023). David I. Yoon, PhD (2019), McMaster Divinity College, is Associate to the Academic Dean and Instructor of Biblical Studies at Emmanuel Bible College, and Research Fellow at McMaster Divinity College. He has published several volumes with Brill.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsContributors1 John’s Prologue and Its ResonancesAn IntroductionStanley E. Porter and David I. Yoon2 A Poetics of Prologue CraftingSpace, Image, Memory, and IntertextJeffrey E. Brickle3 The PrologueThe Meta-Narrative of John’s GospelMary L. Coloe4 Jesus, the Word Made Flesh, and John’s ProloguePanayotis Coutsoumpos5 Theological Movement in the Prologue of JohnRon C. Fay6 Who Is the John of John 1:6–8?Mark Keown7 A Narrow Gate to the Johannine Gospel?Re-Thinking the Relationship Between the Johannine Prologue (John 1:1–18) and the Gospel of John in Terms of the Theories of Paratext and of “Discourse Universe”Michael Labahn8 Resonances of the Johannine Prologue in Second-Century Readings of GenesisJonathon Lookadoo9 John’s Prologue, Semantic Domains, and Textual CohesionStanley E. Porter10 The Logos in the Johannine Prologue and Its Philosophical Reception, Christian and “Pagan”Ilaria L.E. Ramelli11 The Scope of the Johannine PrologueKari Syreeni12 The Johannine Prologue and John the Baptist through the Lens of Mark’s Prologue and JosephusTravis D. Trost13 Paving the Way into the Divine Family in John 1:18Blake Wassell14 The Meaning and Use of λόγος in John’s PrologueA Lexical Semantic ApproachDavid I. YoonModern Authors IndexAncient Sources Index