Endnote 18 – Circumcision of Gentile Converts

See esp. J. Louis Martyn, History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2nd ed. 1979); Raymond E. Brown, The Community of the Beloved Disciple (New York: Ramsey; Toronto: Paulist, 1979). See also Brown, “Johannine Ecclesiology—The Community’s Origins,” Interpretation 31 (1977), pp. 379–393, and “Other Sheep Not of This Fold: The Johannine Perspective on Christian Diversity in the Late First Century,” JBL 97 (1978), pp. 5–22; Martyn, The Gospel of John in Christian History (New York, Ramsey; Toronto: Paulist, 1978); Wayne E. Meeks, The Prophet-King; Moses Traditions and the Johannine Christology (Leiden, Neth.: Brill, 1967), and “Am I a Jew?’ Johannine Christianity and Judaism,” in Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults. Studies for Morton Smith at Sixty, ed. Jacob Neusner (Leiden, Neth.: Brill, 1975), vol. 1, pp. 163–186; and Klaus Wengst, Bedrangte Gemeinde und verherrlichter Christus (Neukirchen-Vluyn, Ger.: Neukirchener Verlag, 2nd ed., 1983).