CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Preface: The Purpose and Plan of This Book -- 1 Second Thoughts on the Fourth Gospel -- Response: Why Should Historical Criticism Continue to have a Place in Johannine Studies? -- 2 In Search of a New Synthesis -- Response: Johannine Exegesis in Transition- Johannes Beutler's Search for a New Synthesis -- 3 The Scriptures and the Words and Works of Jesus -- Response: Living Word(s) and the Bread of Life -- 4 Three Revolutions, a Funeral, and Glimmers of a Challenging Dawn -- Response: Inspecting an Aerial Photograph of John's Engageent with Sources -- 5 Reflections Upon a Johannine Pilgrimage -- Response: Progress and Regress in Recent Johannine Scholarship - Reflections Upon the Road Ahead -- 6 Pursuing the Elusive -- Response: To What End, Methodology? -- 7 The Gospel and the Epistles of John Read against the Background of the History of the Johannine Communities -- Response: The Combination of a Literary and a Historical Approach to the Gospel of John -- 8 The Gospel of John and the Signs Gospel -- Response: The Fourth Gospel in First-Century Media Culture -- 9 What's the Meaning of This?-Relections Upon a Life and Career -- Response: Is History History? -- 10 The Johannine Community among Jewish and Other -- Response: Reading History in the Fourth Gospel -- 11 Into Narrative and Beyond -- Response: The Beyond Beckons -- 12 The Prologue and Chapter 17 of the Gospel of John -- Response: The Prologue and Jesus' Final Prayer -- 13 The Signs of the Messiah and the Quest for Eternal Life -- Response: The Johannine Conception of Authentic Faith as a Response to the Divine Initiative -- 14 Remaining in His Word: From Faith to Faith by Way -- Response: Ideologies Past and Present -- 15 Johannine Studies and the Geopolitical: Reflections Upon Absence and Irruption.

Response: Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Johannine Studies -- 16 The Problem of History in John -- Response: Genre, Sources, and History -- 17 Tradition, Exegetical Formation, and the Leuven Hypothesis -- Response: The Leuven Hypothesis in C/catholic Perspective -- 18 The Road Ahead-Three Aspects of Johannine Scholarship -- Response: Combining Key Methodologies in Johannine Studies -- Works Cited -- Contributors.