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The Johannine Epistles are today read as an important part of the Johannine literature. Yet the meaning of the text is often unclear. Part of the problem arises because, although 1 John is called an epistle, it lacks the formal marks of an epistle. In 1, 2, and 3 John, John Painter illuminates the relationship 1, 2, and 3 John have to each other and to the Gospel. Painter explains the historical...

of the tradition may not have developed in the school, a high degree of agreement is to be expected. If scholars in the first half of the twentieth century were concerned with the question of the common authorship of the Gospel and 1 John, those of today generally reject common authorship. The debate now concerns whether the Gospel has a single author and the Epistles a common author. In this new awareness of complexity it is a question of the relationship of the Epistles to each other and to the
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