The Epistles of John [antikvár]

EDITOR'S PREFACE When it was decided to replace Dr Alexander Ross's commentary on the Epistles of James and John by two separate volumes, it was necessary to secure two commentators. Happily, hard on Dr. James Adamson's acceptance of the invitation to write the commentary on the Epistle of James came Dr. I. Howard Marshall's consent to undertake the companion work on the Epistles of John. Dr. Marshall is a graduate of the Universities of Aberdeen and Cambridge; he also spent a period of study under Professor Joachim Jeremias at Gottingen. For over twelve years he has been a member of the teaching staff of the Department of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen, where he now holds the status of Reader. He gave evidence of his interest in Johannine literature when, as a youthful scholar, he contributed the articles on the Gospel and Epistles of John to the New Bible Dictionary (1962). Since then he has proved his worth as a New Testament exegete and theologian in a succession of scholarly publications—some of a specialist nature and some more popular. In criticism and exegesis he has specialized thus far in Lukan studies, with his Luke: Historian and Theologian (1970) and The Gospel of Luke: A Commentary on the Greek Text (1978). He has written popular Scripture Union commentaries on Mark (1963) and Kings and Chronicles (1967). An important symposium on New Testament Interpretation appeared under his editorship in 1977. In New Testament theology his major work is a study of the doctrine of perseverance, Kept by the Power of God (1969). He is also author oiChristian Beliefs (1963), The Work of Christ (1969), The Origins of New Testament Christology (1976), and I Believe in the Historical Jesus (1977). These works, together with a number of articles in learned periodicals, have placed him in the front rank of vii