We have another book announcement, co-edited by D33 bloggers, Stan and Dave:

The Johannine Prologue and Its Resonances. Ed. Stanley E. Porter and David I. Yoon. Johannine Studies 4. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

The volume has 14 chapters, including the Introduction, which not only provides summaries of the other chapters but provides some background to the study of the Johannine Prologue. The Table of Contents is as follows:

1. John’s Prologue and Its Resonances: An Introduction – Stanley E. Porter and David I. Yoon
2. A Poetics of Prologue Crafting: Space, Image, Memory, and Intertext – Jeffrey E. Brickle
3. The Prologue: The Meta-Narrative of John’s Gospel – Mary L. Coloe
4. Jesus, the Word Made Flesh, and John’s Prologue – Panayotis Coutsoumpos
5. Theological Movement in the Prologue of John – Ron C. Fay
6. Who Is the John of John 1:6–8? – Mark J. Keown
7. A Narrow Gate to the Johannine Gospel? Rethinking 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 Labahn
8. Resonances of the Johannine Prologue in Second-Century Readings of Genesis – Jonathon Lookadoo
9. John’s Prologue, Semantic Domains, and Textual Cohesion – Stanley E. Porter
10. The Logos in the Johannine Prologue and Its Philosophical Reception, Christian and “Pagan” – Ilaria L.E. Ramelli
11. The Scope of the Johannine Prologue – Kari Syreeni
12. The Johannine Prologue and John the Baptist through the Lens of Mark’s Prologue and Josephus – Travis D. Trost
13. Paving the Way into the Divine Family in John 1:18 – Blake Wassell
14. The Meaning and Use of λόγος in John’s Prologue: A Lexical Semantic Approach – David I. Yoon

This is the fourth volume of the Johannine Studies series published by Brill. The fifth volume is slated to be entitled John’s Gospel and Its Sources, and we are accepting submissions for that volume until the end of the year. The sixth through tenth volume titles are planned already:

• Volume 6: John and Judaism (2026)
• Volume 7: John and the Synoptic Gospels (2027)
• Volume 8: John and the “Fourth Quest” (2028)
• Volume 9: Johannine Language (including Genre and Style) (2029)
• Volume 10: Johannine Community and Audience (2030)

We are excited to see how subsequent volumes in this series will turn out; we anticipate that they will generate further thought and discussion in Johannine studies, as the previous volumes have. For any questions or comments regarding this book or other JOST volumes, feel free to contact us.

— David I. Yoon