Textbook
Brueggemann, Walter. An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003). Second Edition, 2012. Chapters in the reading is according to 2nd Edition.（中譯本：布魯格曼著，許子韻譯《布氏舊約導論：正典與基督教的想像》香港：天道，2012）
Textbook
Berry, Donald K., An Introduction to Wisdom and Poetry of the Old Testament. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1995.
Ballard, H. Wayne and W. Dennis Tucker, Jr., eds. An Introduction to Wisdom Literature and the Psalms: Festschrift Marvin E. Tate. Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2000.
Supplement
Perdue, Leo G.. The Sword and the Stylus: An Introduction to Wisdom in the Age of Empires. Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2008.
Hunter, Alastair. Wisdom Literature. SCM Core Text; London: SCM Presss, 2006.
Hunter, Alastair. An Introduction to the Psalms. T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies; New York: T&T Clark, 2011[2008].
Textbooks
Richard Bauckham. Gospel of Glory: Major Themes in Johannine Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker 2015. ISBN 978-0-8010-9612-9
Raymond Brown. An Introduction to the Gospel of John. Ed. By Francis Moloney. NewYork: Doubleday, 2003. ISBN 0-385-50722-4
Michael Gorman. Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1-60608-560-8
Robert Kysar. John the Maverick Gospel, 3rd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007. ISBN 0-664-23056-3
Other Readings
Weekly required readings are listed in the syllabus and the a select bibliography is provided for further research as follows:
A Select Bibliography for the Johannine Literature (-2020)
The Gospel of John: Critical Commentaries
* Christian Classics on Internet: www.ccel.org; www.newadvent.com
1970 Brown, Raymond E. The Gospel according to John. 2 vols. AB. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966, 1970.
1971 Bultmann, Rudolf. The Gospel of John: A Commentary. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1971.
1978 Barrett, C. K. The Gospel According to St. John. 2nd ed., Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978.
1998 Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of John. Collegeville: Liturgical, 1998.
2012 Bruner, Frederick. The Gospel of John: A Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012.
2017 Beutler, Johannes. A Commentary on The Gospel of John. (tr. Michael Tait). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017.
Major Studies
1953 Dodd, C. H. The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953.
1979 Brown, Raymond E. The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, Loves, and Hates of an Individual Church in New Testament Times. New York: Paulist, 1979.
1979 Martyn, J. Louis. History & Theology in the Fourth Gospel. rev. enl. ed., Nashville: Abingdon, 1979.
1983 Culpepper, R. Alan. Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
1986 Ashton, John, ed. The Interpretation of John. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.
1987 Burge, Gary M. The Anointed Community: The Holy Spirit in the Johannine Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987.
1988 Rensberger, David. Johannine Faith and Liberating Community. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1988.
1992 Stibbe, M. W. G. John as Storyteller: Narrative Criticism and the Fourth Gospel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
1993 Petersen, Norman R. The Gospel of John and the Sociology of Light. Valley Forge: Trinity, 1993.
1995 Koester, Craig R. Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel: Meaning, Mystery, Community. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
1996 Ball, David M. “I Am” in John’s Gospel: Literary Function, Background and Theological Implications. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Pr., 1996.
1996 Segovia, Fernando F. (ed.) “What is John?” Readers and Readings of the Fourth Gospel. Atlanta: Scholars, 1996.
1998 Westermann, Claus. The Gospel of John in the Light of the Old Testament (tr. S. Schatzmann). Peabody: Hendrickson, 1998.
1999 Schneiders, Sandra M. Written That You May Believe: Encountering Jesus in the Fourth Gospel. New York: Crossroad, 1999.
2001 Reinhartz, Adele. Befriending the Beloved Disciple: A Jewish Reading of the Gospel of John. New York: Continuum, 2001.
2001 Thompson, Marianne. The God of the Gospel of John. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.
2002 Dube, Musa W. and Jeffrey L. Staley. John and Postcolonialism: Travel, Space and Power. London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.
2002 Kealy, Seán P. John’s Gospel and the History of Biblical Interpretation. 2 vols. Lewiston: Mellen, 2002.
2003 Brown, Raymond E. An Introduction to the Gospel of John (ed. Francis J. Moloney). New York: Doubleday, 2003.
2003 Levine, Amy-Jill. A Feminist Companion to John, 2 vols. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.
2005 Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of John: Text and Context. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
2006 Keefer, Kyle. The Branches of the Gospel of John: The Reception of the Fourth Gospel in the Early Church. London: T & T Clark, 2006.
2007 Bauckham, Richard. The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology in the Gospel of John. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.
2007 Bauckham, Richard ed. The Gospel of John and Christian Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
2007 Kysar, Robert. John the Maverick Gospel, 3rd ed. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2007.
2007 Richey, Lance. Roman Imperial Ideology and the Gospel of John. Washington DC: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2007.
2007 Thatcher, Tom, ed. What We Have Heard from the Beginning: The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007.
2007 Gench, Frances. Encounters with Jesus: Studies in the Gospel of John. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007.
2009 O’Grady, John F. Preaching the Gospel of John. New York: Paulist, 2009.
2013 Hunt, Steven, Tolmie, D. Francois & Zimmermann, Ruben, eds. Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Narrative Approaches to Seventy Figures in John. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013.
2015 Bauckham, Richard. Gospel of Glory: Major Themes in Johannine Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2015.
2017 Culpepper, R. Alan and Anderson, Paul eds. John and Judaism: A Contested Relationship in Context. Atlanta: SBL, 2017.
2017 Brown, Sherri and Skinner, Christopher, ed. Johannine Ethics: The Moral World of the Gospel and Epistle of John. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017.
2018 Porter, Stanley and Fay, Ron eds. Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation. Kregel, 2018.
2018 Lieu, Judith and de Boer, Martinus eds. Oxford Handbook of Johannine Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
2018 Koester, Craig ed. Portraits of Jesus in the Gospel of John. New York: T & T Clark, 2018.
2018 Frey, Jorg. Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel: Tradition and Narration. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2018.
2018 Frey, Jorg. The Glory of the Crucified One: Christology and Theology of the Gospel of John. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018.
The Johannine Epistles: Critical Commentaries
1982 Brown, R. E. The Epistles of John. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982.
2008 Lieu, Judith. I, II, & III John: A Commentary. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008.
2010 Von Wahlde, Urban C. The Gospel and Letters of John, Vol. 3: Commentary on the Three Johannine Letters. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.
Major Studies
1983 Malherbe, Abraham J. Aspects of Early Christianity. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
1991 Lieu, Judith. The Theology of the Johannine Epistles. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1991.
2017 彭國偉主編，《研讀本（新標點和合本）系列 – 約翰一二三書》（台灣聖經公會，2017）。
The Book of Revelation: Critical Commentaries
1991 Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. Revelation: Vision of A Just World. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
1993 Bauckham, Richard. The Theology of the Book of Revelation. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1993.
1994 Court, John M. Revelation. Sheffield: JSOT, 1994.
1996 Richard, Pablo. Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996.
1997 Aune, David. Revelation. 3 vols. Dallas: Word Book, 1997-98.
1999 Beale, Gregory. The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
2000 Malina, Bruce J. and John J. Pilch. Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Revelation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.
2003 Witherington III, Ben. Revelation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003
2004 Kovac, Judith and Christopher Rowland. Revelation: The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Major Studies
1987 Boesak, Allan A. Comfort and Protest: The Apocalypse from a South African Perspective. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.
1990 Thompson, Leonard. The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
1991 Peterson, Eugene. Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
1993 Bauckham, Richard. The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Theology of Revelation. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993.
1995 Moyise, Steve. The Old Testament in the Book of Revelation. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1995.
1999 González, Justo L. For the Healing of the Nations: The Book of Revelation in an Age of Cultural Conflict. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1999.
2005 Blount, Brian K. Can I Get a Witness? Reading Revelation through African American Culture. Louisville: WJK, 2005.
2011 Labahn, Michael and Lehtipuu, Outi, eds. Imagery in the Book of Revelation. Leuven: Peeters, 2011.
2012 Pagels, Elaine. Revelations, Visions, Prophecy & Politics in the Book of Revelation. New York: Penguin Books, 2012.
2012 Hays, Richard and Stefan Alkier, eds. Revelation and the Politics of Apocalyptic Interpretation. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012.
2013 Chilton, Bruce. Visions of the Apocalypse: Receptions of John’s Revelation in Western Imagination. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013.
2014 Stevens, Gerald. Revelation: The Past and Future of John’s Apocalypse. Eugene: Pickwick, 2014.
2017 Gorman, Michael. Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017.
Textbooks and learning resources
Students are recommended to purchase two books and read them parallel to the course, number 1) and either number 2) or 3) (or you may choose to borrow them from a senior student).
- Gonzalez, Justo: The Story of Christianity. Volume 2. The Reformation to the Present Day, San Francisco: Harper, 1985 (pages 1-125) (also available in Chinese)
- Gray, Madeleine: The Protestant Reformation. Belief, Practice and Tradition, Brighton; Portland: Sussex Academics Press 2003
- McGrath, Alister E.: Reformation Thought. An Introduction, Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, USA: Blackwell, 1993 – 中譯: 麥格夫著, 陳佐人譯: 《宗教改革運動思潮》. 香港: 基道, 1991. (BT26 M3712 1991) (譯自英文1988初版) (128 HKD) or 宗教改革运动思潮 (简体版) 中国社会科学出版社, 2009 (可網上購買，或深圳購買)
Allen, Ronald J., and John C. Holbert. Holy Root, Holy Branches: Christian Preaching from the Old Testament. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
Allen, Ronald J., Scott Black Johnston, and Barbara Shires Blaisdell. Theology for Preaching: Authority, Truth and Knowledge of God in a Postmodern Ethos. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.
Barth, Karl., G. W. Bromiley & D. E. Daniels trans., Homiletics. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1991.
Black, Kathy. A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1996.
Bouchard, Charles., Regina. Siegfried, Edward. Ruane, and Aquinas Institute of Theology. In the Company of Preachers. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1993.
Campbell, Charles L. Preaching Jesus: New Directions for Homiletics in Hans Frei's Postliberal Theology. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans, 1997.
Capon, Robert Farrar. The Foolishness of Preaching: Proclaiming the Gospel against the Wisdom of the World. George Craig Stewart Lectures. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1998
Chapell, Bryan. Using Illustrations to Preach with Power. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1992.
Cox, James W. Preaching. San Francisco, Calif.: Harper San Francisco, 1993.
English, Donald. An Evangelical Theology of Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.
Erickson, Millard J., and James L. Heflin, Old Wine In New Wineskins: Doctrinal Preaching in a Changing World. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1997.
Killinger, John. Fundamentals of Preaching. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.
Koller, Charles W. How to Preach without Notes. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1997.
Long, Thomas G., and Edward Farley. Preaching as a Theological Task: World, Gospel, Scripture: In Honor of David Buttrick. 1st ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.
Massey, James Earl., and Barry L Callen. Sharing Heaven's Music: The Heart of Christian Preaching: Essays in Honor of James Earl Massey. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
McClure, John S. Best Advice for Preaching. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998.
Miller, Calvin. Spirit, Word and Story: A Philosophy of Marketplace Preaching. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1996.
Miller, Calvin. The Empowered Communicator: 7 Keys to Unlocking an Audience. Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman & Holman, 1994.
Old, Hughes Oliphant. The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1998.
Shelley, Marshall. Changing Lives through Preaching and Worship: 30 Strategies for Powerful Communication. 1st ed. Library of Christian Leadership. Nashville, Tenn.: Moorings, 1995.
Stott, John R. W. Between Two Worlds: The Art of Preaching in the Twentieth Century. Grand Rapids,Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1982.
Stott, John R. I Believe in Preaching. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982.
Thompson, James W. Preaching Like Paul: Homiletical Wisdom for Today. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.
Thompson, William D., and Gordon C. Bennet, Dialogue Preaching; the Shared Sermon. Valley Forge Pa.: Judson Press, 1969.
Travis, Sarah. Decolonizing Preaching: Decolonizing Preaching the Pulpit as Postcolonial Space. Loyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching Series. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2014.
Troeger, Thomas H. Imagining A Sermon. Abingdon Preacher's Library. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.
Troeger, Thomas H. Ten Strategies for Preaching in a Multimedia Culture, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.
Untener, Ken. Preaching Better: Practical Suggestions for Homilists. New York: Paulist Press, 1999.
Webber, Robert E. The Renewal of Sunday Worship. 1st ed. The Complete Library of Christian Worship; v. 3. Nashville, Tenn.: Star Song Pub. Group, 1993.
Wilson, Paul Scott. The Practice of Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
Wogaman, J. Philip. Speaking the Truth in Love: Prophetic Preaching to a Broken World. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.
王少勇：《同在、同苦、同呼》（香港：德慧文化，2018年）。
王明道：《王明道先生講道集》（香港：晨星書屋，1981 年）。
丘恩處：《佳音淺講 : 丘恩處博士講道集》（香港：香港路德會文字部，1988 年）。
邢福增：《世界不配有的人》（香港：研道社，2015年）。
邢福增：《被擄的記憶：選民 + 遺民》（香港：研道社，2017年）。
邢福增：《我城哀歌•時代福音》（香港：德慧文化，2019年）。
沈以藩：《講台事奉 ─ 沈以藩主教文集（上）》（上海：中國基督教協會，1996 年）。
周聯華：《新編講道法》（台北：台灣基督教文藝出版社，1989 年）。
施達雄：《實用講道法》（台北 ：中國主日學協會，1994 年）。
胡簪雲譯：《衛斯理講道集》（香港：基督教輔僑出版社，1965 年）。
威爾森著。賴皇伶譯：《讓講道活力再現：從困境到恩典的四頁講道法》（台北：道聲出版社，2019年）。
徐錦堯：《主日八分半：主日講道（乙年）》（香港：公教教研中心，1999 年）。
徐錦堯：《主日八分半：主日講道（丙年）》（香港：公教教研中心，2000 年）。
袁天佑：《走進時代的信仰》（香港：亮光文化，2017 年）。
袁天佑：《無力的時代 有力的信仰》（香港：亮光文化，2018 年）。
袁天佑：《走進時代的信仰2.0》（香港：亮光文化，2019 年）。
基督教文藝出版社編：《大學講章》（香港：香港中文大學崇基學院，1985 年）。
雅克森、凱利合著。安格斯譯：《時機宣講：適切境況的福音宣講》（香港：基督教文藝出版社，2013年）。
斯托德著，魏啟源、劉良淑合譯：《當代講道藝術》（台北 ：校園書房出版社，1986 年）。
曾立華：《講道職事的重尋》（香港：宣道出版社，1993 年）。
校園編輯室編：《神與人之間 : 唐崇榮在台講道集， 附信仰問題解答》（台 北：校園團契出版社，1977 年）。
章文新編：《教父及中世紀證道集》（香港：基督教文藝出版社，1991 年）。
孫寶玲：《21世紀聖經講道學》（台北：校園書房出版社，2016年）。
蔡慈倫：《當代基督教講道學》（台北：校園書房出版社，2011年）。
鄺慧娟編：《大學講章（二）─ 慶》（香港：恩奇書業，1989 年）。
鄺慧娟編：《大學講章（三）─ 應》（香港：恩奇書業，1989 年）。
鄺慧娟編：《大學講章（四）─ 意》（香港：恩奇書業，1989 年）。
龐德明：《全年主日講道集：根據教會日曆》（台北：臺灣聖公會傳達部，1977 年）。
This course will not have one specific handbook that it follows. However, students may get themselves acquainted with some of the areas that the course will cover by reading one of the following books:
- Dana L. Robert, Christian Mission. How Christianity Became a World Religion, Chichester, U.K. and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
- Stephen Bevans, Models of Contextual Theology, New York: Orbis, 2002 (revised and expanded edition)
- Bosch, David J.: Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission, New York, Orbis, 1991 (also available in Chinese), 349-520 (chapters 10 to 12) (also available in Chinese)
Henderson, Eric. The Active Reader: Strategies for Academic Reading and Writing. 2nd ed. Don Mills, Ont.: OUP Canada, 2011.
Mewburn, Inger, Katherine Firth, and Shaun Lehmann. How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble: A Practical Guide. London: Open University Press, 2018.
Ridley, Diana. The Literature Review: A Step-by-Step Guide for Students. 2nd ed. London: SAGE, 2012. (中譯:《一步步教您做文獻回顧》。張可婷譯。台北縣永和市：韋伯文化國際，2011。)
Vyhmeister, Nancy Jean, and Terry Dwain Robertson. Your Guide to Writing Quality Research Papers: For Students of Religion and Theology. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2014. (中譯:《優質的研究報告--神學論文寫作指南》。李美慧譯。 台北：天恩，2011。)
Yaghjian, Lucretia B. Writing Theology Well: A Rhetoric for Theological and Biblical Writers. New York: Continuum, 2006.
吳蘭玉，呂素琴合著。《專文與論文：寫作手冊》。新加坡：新加坡神學院，2006。
李志秋、張心瑋合著。《學術研究與寫作：聖經、神學與教牧學研究手冊》。增訂版。新加坡：新加坡神學院出版部，2015。
葉至誠、葉立誠合著。《研究方法與論文寫作》。台北：商鼎，2011。
Textbooks and learning resources
Students are recommended to purchase two books and read them parallel to the course, number 1) and either number 2) or 3) (or you may choose to borrow them from a senior student).
- Gonzalez, Justo: The Story of Christianity. Volume 2. The Reformation to the Present Day, San Francisco: Harper, 1985 (pages 1-125) (also available in Chinese)
- Gray, Madeleine: The Protestant Reformation. Belief, Practice and Tradition, Brighton; Portland: Sussex Academics Press 2003
- McGrath, Alister E.: Reformation Thought. An Introduction, Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, USA: Blackwell, 1993 – 中譯: 麥格夫著, 陳佐人譯: 《宗教改革運動思潮》. 香港: 基道, 1991. (BT26 M3712 1991) (譯自英文1988初版) (128 HKD) or 宗教改革运动思潮 (简体版) 中国社会科学出版社, 2009 (可網上購買，或深圳購買)
Textbook
Brueggemann, Walter. An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003). Second Edition, 2012. Chapters in the reading is according to 2nd Edition.（中譯本：布魯格曼著，許子韻譯《布氏舊約導論：正典與基督教的想像》香港：天道，2012）
Textbook
Berry, Donald K., An Introduction to Wisdom and Poetry of the Old Testament. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1995.
Ballard, H. Wayne and W. Dennis Tucker, Jr., eds. An Introduction to Wisdom Literature and the Psalms: Festschrift Marvin E. Tate. Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2000.
Perdue, Leo G.. The Sword and the Stylus: An Introduction to Wisdom in the Age of Empires. Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2008.
Hunter, Alastair. Wisdom Literature. SCM Core Text; London: SCM Presss, 2006.
Hunter, Alastair. An Introduction to the Psalms. T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies; New York: T&T Clark, 2011[2008].
Textbooks
Richard Bauckham. Gospel of Glory: Major Themes in Johannine Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker 2015. ISBN 978-0-8010-9612-9
Raymond Brown. An Introduction to the Gospel of John. Ed. By Francis Moloney. NewYork: Doubleday, 2003. ISBN 0-385-50722-4
Michael Gorman. Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1-60608-560-8
Robert Kysar. John the Maverick Gospel, 3rd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007. ISBN 0-664-23056-3
Other Readings
Weekly required readings are listed in the syllabus and the a select bibliography is provided for further research as follows:
A Select Bibliography for the Johannine Literature (-2020)
The Gospel of John: Critical Commentaries
* Christian Classics on Internet: www.ccel.org; www.newadvent.com
1970 Brown, Raymond E. The Gospel according to John. 2 vols. AB. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966, 1970.
1971 Bultmann, Rudolf. The Gospel of John: A Commentary. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1971.
1978 Barrett, C. K. The Gospel According to St. John. 2nd ed., Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978.
1998 Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of John. Collegeville: Liturgical, 1998.
2012 Bruner, Frederick. The Gospel of John: A Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012.
2017 Beutler, Johannes. A Commentary on The Gospel of John. (tr. Michael Tait). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017.
Major Studies
1953 Dodd, C. H. The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953.
1979 Brown, Raymond E. The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, Loves, and Hates of an Individual Church in New Testament Times. New York: Paulist, 1979.
1979 Martyn, J. Louis. History & Theology in the Fourth Gospel. rev. enl. ed., Nashville: Abingdon, 1979.
1983 Culpepper, R. Alan. Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
1986 Ashton, John, ed. The Interpretation of John. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.
1987 Burge, Gary M. The Anointed Community: The Holy Spirit in the Johannine Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987.
1988 Rensberger, David. Johannine Faith and Liberating Community. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1988.
1992 Stibbe, M. W. G. John as Storyteller: Narrative Criticism and the Fourth Gospel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
1993 Petersen, Norman R. The Gospel of John and the Sociology of Light. Valley Forge: Trinity, 1993.
1995 Koester, Craig R. Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel: Meaning, Mystery, Community. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
1996 Ball, David M. “I Am” in John’s Gospel: Literary Function, Background and Theological Implications. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Pr., 1996.
1996 Segovia, Fernando F. (ed.) “What is John?” Readers and Readings of the Fourth Gospel. Atlanta: Scholars, 1996.
1998 Westermann, Claus. The Gospel of John in the Light of the Old Testament (tr. S. Schatzmann). Peabody: Hendrickson, 1998.
1999 Schneiders, Sandra M. Written That You May Believe: Encountering Jesus in the Fourth Gospel. New York: Crossroad, 1999.
2001 Reinhartz, Adele. Befriending the Beloved Disciple: A Jewish Reading of the Gospel of John. New York: Continuum, 2001.
2001 Thompson, Marianne. The God of the Gospel of John. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.
2002 Dube, Musa W. and Jeffrey L. Staley. John and Postcolonialism: Travel, Space and Power. London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.
2002 Kealy, Seán P. John’s Gospel and the History of Biblical Interpretation. 2 vols. Lewiston: Mellen, 2002.
2003 Brown, Raymond E. An Introduction to the Gospel of John (ed. Francis J. Moloney). New York: Doubleday, 2003.
2003 Levine, Amy-Jill. A Feminist Companion to John, 2 vols. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.
2005 Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of John: Text and Context. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
2006 Keefer, Kyle. The Branches of the Gospel of John: The Reception of the Fourth Gospel in the Early Church. London: T & T Clark, 2006.
2007 Bauckham, Richard. The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology in the Gospel of John. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.
2007 Bauckham, Richard ed. The Gospel of John and Christian Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
2007 Kysar, Robert. John the Maverick Gospel, 3rd ed. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2007.
2007 Richey, Lance. Roman Imperial Ideology and the Gospel of John. Washington DC: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2007.
2007 Thatcher, Tom, ed. What We Have Heard from the Beginning: The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007.
2007 Gench, Frances. Encounters with Jesus: Studies in the Gospel of John. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007.
2009 O’Grady, John F. Preaching the Gospel of John. New York: Paulist, 2009.
2013 Hunt, Steven, Tolmie, D. Francois & Zimmermann, Ruben, eds. Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Narrative Approaches to Seventy Figures in John. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013.
2015 Bauckham, Richard. Gospel of Glory: Major Themes in Johannine Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2015.
2017 Culpepper, R. Alan and Anderson, Paul eds. John and Judaism: A Contested Relationship in Context. Atlanta: SBL, 2017.
2017 Brown, Sherri and Skinner, Christopher, ed. Johannine Ethics: The Moral World of the Gospel and Epistle of John. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017.
2018 Porter, Stanley and Fay, Ron eds. Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation. Kregel, 2018.
2018 Lieu, Judith and de Boer, Martinus eds. Oxford Handbook of Johannine Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
2018 Koester, Craig ed. Portraits of Jesus in the Gospel of John. New York: T & T Clark, 2018.
2018 Frey, Jorg. Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel: Tradition and Narration. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2018.
2018 Frey, Jorg. The Glory of the Crucified One: Christology and Theology of the Gospel of John. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018.
The Johannine Epistles: Critical Commentaries
1982 Brown, R. E. The Epistles of John. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982.
2008 Lieu, Judith. I, II, & III John: A Commentary. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008.
2010 Von Wahlde, Urban C. The Gospel and Letters of John, Vol. 3: Commentary on the Three Johannine Letters. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.
Major Studies
1983 Malherbe, Abraham J. Aspects of Early Christianity. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
1991 Lieu, Judith. The Theology of the Johannine Epistles. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1991.
2017 彭國偉主編，《研讀本（新標點和合本）系列 – 約翰一二三書》（台灣聖經公會，2017）。
The Book of Revelation: Critical Commentaries
1991 Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. Revelation: Vision of A Just World. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
1993 Bauckham, Richard. The Theology of the Book of Revelation. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1993.
1994 Court, John M. Revelation. Sheffield: JSOT, 1994.
1996 Richard, Pablo. Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996.
1997 Aune, David. Revelation. 3 vols. Dallas: Word Book, 1997-98.
1999 Beale, Gregory. The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
2000 Malina, Bruce J. and John J. Pilch. Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Revelation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.
2003 Witherington III, Ben. Revelation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003
2004 Kovac, Judith and Christopher Rowland. Revelation: The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Major Studies
1987 Boesak, Allan A. Comfort and Protest: The Apocalypse from a South African Perspective. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.
1990 Thompson, Leonard. The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
1991 Peterson, Eugene. Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
1993 Bauckham, Richard. The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Theology of Revelation. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993.
1995 Moyise, Steve. The Old Testament in the Book of Revelation. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1995.
1999 González, Justo L. For the Healing of the Nations: The Book of Revelation in an Age of Cultural Conflict. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1999.
2005 Blount, Brian K. Can I Get a Witness? Reading Revelation through African American Culture. Louisville: WJK, 2005.
2011 Labahn, Michael and Lehtipuu, Outi, eds. Imagery in the Book of Revelation. Leuven: Peeters, 2011.
2012 Pagels, Elaine. Revelations, Visions, Prophecy & Politics in the Book of Revelation. New York: Penguin Books, 2012.
2012 Hays, Richard and Stefan Alkier, eds. Revelation and the Politics of Apocalyptic Interpretation. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012.
2013 Chilton, Bruce. Visions of the Apocalypse: Receptions of John’s Revelation in Western Imagination. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013.
2014 Stevens, Gerald. Revelation: The Past and Future of John’s Apocalypse. Eugene: Pickwick, 2014.
2017 Gorman, Michael. Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017.
Allen, Ronald J., and John C. Holbert. Holy Root, Holy Branches: Christian Preaching from the Old Testament. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
Allen, Ronald J., Scott Black Johnston, and Barbara Shires Blaisdell. Theology for Preaching: Authority, Truth and Knowledge of God in a Postmodern Ethos. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.
Barth, Karl., G. W. Bromiley & D. E. Daniels trans., Homiletics. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1991.
Black, Kathy. A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1996.
Bouchard, Charles., Regina. Siegfried, Edward. Ruane, and Aquinas Institute of Theology. In the Company of Preachers. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1993.
Campbell, Charles L. Preaching Jesus: New Directions for Homiletics in Hans Frei's Postliberal Theology. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans, 1997.
Capon, Robert Farrar. The Foolishness of Preaching: Proclaiming the Gospel against the Wisdom of the World. George Craig Stewart Lectures. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1998
Chapell, Bryan. Using Illustrations to Preach with Power. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1992.
Cox, James W. Preaching. San Francisco, Calif.: Harper San Francisco, 1993.
English, Donald. An Evangelical Theology of Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.
Erickson, Millard J., and James L. Heflin, Old Wine In New Wineskins: Doctrinal Preaching in a Changing World. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1997.
Killinger, John. Fundamentals of Preaching. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.
Koller, Charles W. How to Preach without Notes. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1997.
Long, Thomas G., and Edward Farley. Preaching as a Theological Task: World, Gospel, Scripture: In Honor of David Buttrick. 1st ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.
Massey, James Earl., and Barry L Callen. Sharing Heaven's Music: The Heart of Christian Preaching: Essays in Honor of James Earl Massey. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
McClure, John S. Best Advice for Preaching. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998.
Miller, Calvin. Spirit, Word and Story: A Philosophy of Marketplace Preaching. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1996.
Miller, Calvin. The Empowered Communicator: 7 Keys to Unlocking an Audience. Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman & Holman, 1994.
Old, Hughes Oliphant. The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1998.
Shelley, Marshall. Changing Lives through Preaching and Worship: 30 Strategies for Powerful Communication. 1st ed. Library of Christian Leadership. Nashville, Tenn.: Moorings, 1995.
Stott, John R. W. Between Two Worlds: The Art of Preaching in the Twentieth Century. Grand Rapids,Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1982.
Stott, John R. I Believe in Preaching. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982.
Thompson, James W. Preaching Like Paul: Homiletical Wisdom for Today. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.
Thompson, William D., and Gordon C. Bennet, Dialogue Preaching; the Shared Sermon. Valley Forge Pa.: Judson Press, 1969.
Travis, Sarah. Decolonizing Preaching: Decolonizing Preaching the Pulpit as Postcolonial Space. Loyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching Series. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2014.
Troeger, Thomas H. Imagining A Sermon. Abingdon Preacher's Library. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.
Troeger, Thomas H. Ten Strategies for Preaching in a Multimedia Culture, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.
Untener, Ken. Preaching Better: Practical Suggestions for Homilists. New York: Paulist Press, 1999.
Webber, Robert E. The Renewal of Sunday Worship. 1st ed. The Complete Library of Christian Worship; v. 3. Nashville, Tenn.: Star Song Pub. Group, 1993.
Wilson, Paul Scott. The Practice of Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
Wogaman, J. Philip. Speaking the Truth in Love: Prophetic Preaching to a Broken World. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.
王少勇：《同在、同苦、同呼》（香港：德慧文化，2018年）。
王明道：《王明道先生講道集》（香港：晨星書屋，1981 年）。
丘恩處：《佳音淺講 : 丘恩處博士講道集》（香港：香港路德會文字部，1988 年）。
邢福增：《世界不配有的人》（香港：研道社，2015年）。
邢福增：《被擄的記憶：選民 + 遺民》（香港：研道社，2017年）。
邢福增：《我城哀歌•時代福音》（香港：德慧文化，2019年）。
沈以藩：《講台事奉 ─ 沈以藩主教文集（上）》（上海：中國基督教協會，1996 年）。
周聯華：《新編講道法》（台北：台灣基督教文藝出版社，1989 年）。
施達雄：《實用講道法》（台北 ：中國主日學協會，1994 年）。
胡簪雲譯：《衛斯理講道集》（香港：基督教輔僑出版社，1965 年）。
威爾森著。賴皇伶譯：《讓講道活力再現：從困境到恩典的四頁講道法》（台北：道聲出版社，2019年）。
徐錦堯：《主日八分半：主日講道（乙年）》（香港：公教教研中心，1999 年）。
徐錦堯：《主日八分半：主日講道（丙年）》（香港：公教教研中心，2000 年）。
袁天佑：《走進時代的信仰》（香港：亮光文化，2017 年）。
袁天佑：《無力的時代 有力的信仰》（香港：亮光文化，2018 年）。
袁天佑：《走進時代的信仰2.0》（香港：亮光文化，2019 年）。
基督教文藝出版社編：《大學講章》（香港：香港中文大學崇基學院，1985 年）。
雅克森、凱利合著。安格斯譯：《時機宣講：適切境況的福音宣講》（香港：基督教文藝出版社，2013年）。
斯托德著，魏啟源、劉良淑合譯：《當代講道藝術》（台北 ：校園書房出版社，1986 年）。
曾立華：《講道職事的重尋》（香港：宣道出版社，1993 年）。
校園編輯室編：《神與人之間 : 唐崇榮在台講道集， 附信仰問題解答》（台 北：校園團契出版社，1977 年）。
章文新編：《教父及中世紀證道集》（香港：基督教文藝出版社，1991 年）。
孫寶玲：《21世紀聖經講道學》（台北：校園書房出版社，2016年）。
蔡慈倫：《當代基督教講道學》（台北：校園書房出版社，2011年）。
鄺慧娟編：《大學講章（二）─ 慶》（香港：恩奇書業，1989 年）。
鄺慧娟編：《大學講章（三）─ 應》（香港：恩奇書業，1989 年）。
鄺慧娟編：《大學講章（四）─ 意》（香港：恩奇書業，1989 年）。
龐德明：《全年主日講道集：根據教會日曆》（台北：臺灣聖公會傳達部，1977 年）。
This course will not have one specific handbook that it follows. However, students may get themselves acquainted with some of the areas that the course will cover by reading one of the following books:
- Dana L. Robert, Christian Mission. How Christianity Became a World Religion, Chichester, U.K. and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
- Stephen Bevans, Models of Contextual Theology, New York: Orbis, 2002 (revised and expanded edition)
- Bosch, David J.: Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission, New York, Orbis, 1991 (also available in Chinese), 349-520 (chapters 10 to 12) (also available in Chinese)
Textbooks
Raymond Brown. An Introduction to the New Testament. New York: Doubleday, 1997. ISBN 0-385-24767-2
Gerd Theissen. The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form. Updated edition. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007. ISBN 0800639006 【= 葛德泰森。《那個加利利人的影子》。陳惠雅翻譯。台南：南與北文化出版社，2011。ISBN 978-986-97488-1-0】
N. T. Wright. Paul: In Fresh Perspective. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2009. ISBN 0800663578
葉約翰。《山上寶訓新解：新盟約與效應史》。香港：研道社，2015。
Recommended
Borg, Marcus & N. T. Wright. The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions, 2nd ed. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2007. ISBN 0061285544
Hays, Richard. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996. ISBN 0-06-063796-X
Theissen, Gerd. Jesus und Paulus: Fundament und Architekt des Christentums. 2013. 【葛德泰森。《⽤新眼光看耶穌與保羅：基督宗教的根基與建築師》。台灣神學院、台南神學院翻譯⼩組譯；台北：南與北出版社，2014。】
Other Readings
Critical Commentaries for research (*recommended)
1. One-Volume Bible Commentary
Fitzmyer, Joseph, Roland Murphy, and Raymond Brown. The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Prentice-Hall, 1990.
Mays, James. Harper’s Bible Commentary. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2000.
Newsom, Carol, Sharon Ringe and Jacqueline Lapsely (eds). The Women’s Bible Commentary. 3rd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2012.
Patte, Daniel. Global Bible Commentary. Nashville: Abingdon, 2004.
2. Critical Commentaries for Exegesis and Research (*recommended)
Matthew
*Boring, M. E. (NIB, 1995)
Brunner (Eerdmans, 1987)
*Davies, W. D. & D. C. Allison (3 vols. ICC, 1998)
Gundry, R. H. (1997)
Hagner, D. A. (2 vols. WBC, 1995)
Hare, D. R. A. (IBC, 1993)
*Luz, U. (Hermeneia, 2001-2006)
Schweizer, E. (1975)
John
Barrett, C. K. (1956)
*Brown, R. E. (AB, 1966, 1970)
Schnackenburg, R. (1982)
Haenchen, E. (Hermeneia, 1984)
Lindars, B. (NTG, 1990)
*Moloney, F. (SP, 1998)
Thompson, M. (NTL, 2015)
*Beutler, J. (2017)
Hebrews
Wilson R. (1987)
*Attridge H. W. (Hermeneia, 1989)
Lane W. L. (Word, 1991)
Ellingworth P. (1993)
*Koester C. (AB, 2001)
*Johnson L. (NTL, 2006)
O’Brien P. (2010)
Romans
*Barrett C. K. (1958)
Käsemann, E. (ET, 1980)
Achtemeier P. (Interpretation, 1985)
Dunn J. D. G. (Word, 1988)
*Fitzmyer, J. (AB, 1993)
Stowers S. K. (1994)
Stuhlmacher P. (1994)
Moo, D. (NICNT, 1996)
*Jewett, R. (Hermeneia, 2007)
Matera, F. (Paideia, 2010)
Keck, L. (ANTC, 2011)
*Longenecker, R. (NIGTC, 2016)
*Thiselton, A. (2016)
A Select Bibliography for Reference and Further Study
Bassler, Jouette, ed. Pauline Theology, Vol. 1: Thessalonians, Philippians, Galatians, Philemon. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
Bauckham, Richard. Gospel of Glory: Major Themes in Johannine Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2015.
Borg, Marcus & N. T. Wright. The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007.
Brown, Raymond. An Introduction to the New Testament. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
Brown, Raymond. The Churches the Apostles Left Behind. New York: Paulist, 1984.
Brown, Raymond. An Introduction to the Gospel of John. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
Burridge, Richard. What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Greco-Roman Biographies. Waco: Baylor UP, 2018.
Conzelmann, Hans. The Theology of St. Luke. New York: Harper, 1961.
Cousar, Charles. “Eschatology and Mark’s Theologia Curcis,” Interpretation 24 (1970) 321-35.
Dahl, Nils. The Crucified Messiah. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1974.
Dunn, James, ed. The Cambridge Companion to St. Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Fitzmyer, Joseph. Luke the Theologian: Aspects of His Teaching. New York: Paulist, 1989.
Green, Joel. The Theology of the Gospel of Luke. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Grieb, A. Katherine. The Story of Romans: A Narrative Defense of God’s Righteousness. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.
Hay, David and Elizabeth Johnson, eds. Pauline Theology, Vol. 3: Romans. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
Hay, David, ed. Pauline Theology, Vol. 2: 1 and 2 Corinthians Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.
Hays, Richard. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996.
Käsemann, Ernst. The Wandering People of God: An Investigation of the Letter to the Hebrews. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1984.
Kingsbury, Jack. Matthew: Structure, Christology, Kingdom. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1975.
Kysar, Robert. John the Maverick Gospel 3rd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007.
Malherbe, Abraham. Paul and the Popular Philosophers. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989.
Martyn, J. Louis. History & Theology in the Fourth Gospel. rev. enl. ed., Nashville: Abingdon, 1979.
Meeks, Wayne. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Schneiders, Sandra. The Revelatory Text. Collegeville: Liturgical, 1999.
Stanton, Graham. A Gospel for a New People: Studies in Matthew. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1992.
Theissen, Gerd. The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form. Philadelphia: Fortress, 2007.
Wright, N. T. Paul and the Faithfulness of God. 2 Vols. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013.
Briggs, R.C. 《如何瞭解耶穌基督：新約聖經研究⽅法》。葉約翰譯。第六版，台北：永望，2001。
葛德泰森。《那個加利利⼈的影⼦》。陳惠雅譯。台南：南與北，2011。
葛德泰森。《⽤新眼光看耶穌與保羅：基督宗教的根基與建築師》。台灣神學院、台南神學院翻譯⼩組譯；台北：南與北，2014。
葉約翰。《⼭上寶訓新解：新盟約與效應史》。⾹港：研道社，2015。