Reading John Summary

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You know how I’m in Gospel of John this semester? We’ve been reading this book called Reading John by Christopher Skinner, and he has some views and ideas that I’ll like to share with you. A lot of scholars, Skinner included, think the Gospel of John is a two level drama with the basic level an account of Jesus’ origins, life, and death, and the deeper level a tale of the community that the gospel was initially written for. You see, a scholar named J. Martyn believes and writes in History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel that John’s community had a split between the Jewish followers of Jesus and the Jewish population that didn’t follow Jesus. Those who did follow Jesus were expelled from the synagogue, and that’s why the threat to the blind man’s parents of getting kicked out the synagogue was emphasized when Jesus healed the blind man in John 9. In Greek, aposynagōgos genētai means to be put out of the synagogue; interestingly it is only mentioned in the Gospel of John and nowhere else in the New Testament. Thus Martyn argues for the two-level drama assumption. …show more content…
There is this idea that the Gospel of John was only written for the Johannine community. Skinner thinks it’s wrong to consider a text written for a specific community can’t address other communities in a different time and place. The reason we believe a Johannine community exists is because there were three epistles titled John in the New Testament written in a similar style and with comparable vocabulary to the gospel. However, there is a scholar named Richard Bauckham who states in his book that the Gospel communities didn’t exist. He believes that the gospels were initially written for those who followed Jesus, whether Jew or

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