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While the First Epistle of John is the longest of all the catholic letters, the Second and Third Epistles are the shortest of all New Testament books. [9] The Johannine Epistles, especially the First, usually belong to a Koine Greek learner's first reading and study. [1]
Johannine literature is the collection of New Testament works that are traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, or to the Johannine community. [1] They are usually dated to the period c. AD 60–110 , with a minority of scholars, including Anglican bishop John Robinson , offering the earliest of these datings.
The authorship of the Johannine works (the Gospel of John, the Johannine epistles, and the Book of Revelation) has been debated by biblical scholars since at least the 2nd century AD. [1] The debate focuses mainly on the identity of the author(s), as well as the date and location of authorship of these writings.
The First Epistle of John [a] is the first of the Johannine epistles of the New Testament, and the fourth of the catholic epistles. There is no scholarly consensus as to the authorship of the Johannine works. The author of the First Epistle is termed John the Evangelist, who most modern scholars believe is not the same as John the Apostle.
[9] [10] It most likely arose within a "Johannine community", [11] [12] and – as it is closely related in style and content to the three Johannine epistles – most scholars treat the four books, along with the Book of Revelation, as a single corpus of Johannine literature, albeit not by the same author. [13]
This category includes articles and categories related to the Johannine literature, a collection of New Testament works that are traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, or to the Johannine community. For the suggested authors of these works, see Authorship of the Johannine works.
Nevertheless, scholars such as Attridge have maintained that the Johannine literature as a whole (made up of the gospel, the three Johannine epistles, and Revelation), points to a community holding itself distinct from the Jewish culture from which it arose while cultivating an intense devotion to Jesus as the definitive revelation of a God ...
Johannine community; ... is a book of the New Testament attributed to John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the other two epistles of John, ...