1. The 'Johannine Question' - the composition of Jn

Raymond E. Brown The Gp according to Jn (1966), intro (too complicated?) Paul Duke Irony in the Fourth Gospel (1985)

Martin Hengel The Johannine Question (1989) - succinct & dictatorial

John Ashton (ed) The Interpretation of Jn (1986), esp Borgen, Dahl, de la Potterie

CK Barrett Essays on Jn (1982)

Barnabas Lindars The Gospel of Jn (1986) intro

James Dunn 'Let John be John' in Stuhlmacher The Gospel and the Gospels

'Jn & the Oral Gospel Tradition' in HW Jesus & the Oral Gospel Tradition (1991)

HW John booklet

2. Johannine Christology - 'Ein über die Erde schreitender Gott'?

as No. 1, especially introductions to commentaries, plus

J. Ashton The Interpretation of Jn, esp essay by Borgen

CK Barrett Essays on Jn (1982), esp chap 2

AT Hanson The Prophetic Gospel (1991), chapters 13-15

M Casey From Jewish Prophet to Gentile God (1991), chap 2

RE Brown Intro to NT Christology (1994), e.g. pp. 121-125, 136-141, 205-213

3. The Passion Narratives - How does Johannine PN differ from that of the Synoptics?

WH Kelber Passion Narrative in Mk (1976)

Donald Senior The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Mt/Mk/Lk/Jn

EP Sanders Jesus and Judaism, chaps 2-3 and end of 1

Judaism, practice & belief, p. 472-88 on Sanhedrin

Nils Dahl 'The PN in Mt' in GN Stanton, The Interpretation of Matthew (1995)

Raymond E. Brown The Death of the Messiah (1993)

4. Why is John so hostile to the Jews?

Raymond E. Brown submission to Biblical Commission - SAMIZDAT

Romans

Good general introduction:

NT Wright What Saint Paul really said (1997)

4. What was the purpose of the letter to the Rms?

James DG Dunn, Romans [Word Biblical Commentary], 1988

John Ziesler, Paul's Letter to the Romans (SCM 1989)

Karl P. Donfried (ed), The Romans Debate, revised & expanded edition, 1991, especially essays by Manson, Bornkamm, Wiefel, Watson, Lampe, Stuhlmacher (both), Dunn (both).

5. Is Paul consistent in his attitude to the Jewish Law?

same reading plus

EP Sanders 'Paul' in Early Christian Thought in its Jewish Context, ed. John Barclay & John Sweet [Hooker Festschrift] (CUP, 1996), p. 112-129, esp 116-125.

JDG Dunn The Theology of Paul the Apostle (1989), p.128-162, 334-385

6. How does Paul see the difference between the two ages of Adam and of Christ?

Peter Stuhlmacher Evangelische Theologie 27 (1967), p. 1-35

NT Wright 'Adam in Pauline Theol' SBL Seminar Papers1983, p.359-389

HA Lombard 'The Adam Typology in Rm 5.12-21' Neotestamentica 15 (1981), p. 69-100

ME Boring 'The Language of Universal Salvation in Paul'JBL105(1986),269

JDG Dunn Theology of Paul the Apostle (1998), 79-101, 199-204, 281-292

JDG Dunn Christology in the Making, p. 98-128

Commentaries on Rm 1.22-24; 3.23; 5.12-19; 7.7-13; 8.

7. What were Paul's chief concerns in writing 1 Cor?

JC Hurd The Origins of 1 Cor (1965)

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor article 49 in NJBC

St Paul's Corinth (1983)

'Corinthian Slogans in 1 Cor 6.12-20',CBQ 40 (1978),p.391-396

'Eucharist and Community in 1 Cor' Worship 50 (1976)370-385; 51 (1977) 56-69

First Corinthians in People's Bible Comm - lively & outspoken

Gerd Theissen The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity, (1982)

RA Horsley 'Wisdom of Word and Words of Wisdom in Corinth', CBQ 39 (1977), 224-239

Charles H Talbert Reading Corinthians (SPCK 1987)

8. What is distinctive about Paul's Christology?

Compare it to John's and Matthew's. As above plus

Raymond Brown Introduction to NT Christology (1994)