John and Qumran: Discovery and Interpretation over Sixty Years

Paul Anderson focuses more specifically on the impact of the scrolls on the study of the Gospel of John over the past sixty years. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the provenance of the Fourth Gospel was considered to be Hellenistic, not Jewish; with the discovery of the scrolls, the roots of the Johannine tradition now find their place among other forms of Palestinian Judaism. Anderson’s article helpfully traces some of the major moments in this gradual reversal and highlights ways that the scrolls have influenced the shift in consensus.