Jesus, and History: I: Critical Appraisals of Critical Views; II: Aspects of Historicity in the Fourth Gospel (SBL, 2007, 2008). Paul S. Minear, John: The Martyr’s Gospel (Pilgrim, 1985), is analogous to his work on Matthew (see above). R. Alan Culpepper, Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design (Fortress, 1987), was considered groundbreaking when it appeared. It applies the new literary criticism to John and offers many fresh insights. At the same time, his adoption of the nineteenth-century
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