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The Johannine Writings
by Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel, translated by Maurice Arthur Canney
611096The Johannine WritingsMaurice Arthur CanneyPaul Wilhelm Schmiedel

                                THE JOHANNINE
                                    WRITINGS

BY

PAUL W. SCHMIEDEL

    PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY AT ZURICH

  TRANSLATED BY

MAURICE A. CANNEY, M.A.

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1908
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PREFACE

   IN the German edition, the present work comprises three parts (8, 10,
   and 12) of the well-known "Religionsgeschichtliche Volksbuecher." The
   present edition gathers these discussions of the Johannine (and
   incidentally of the Synoptic) problem into a single volume. It has the
   further advantage--through the kindness of Prof. Schmiedel--of
   incorporating many manuscript improvements in and additions to the
   German text. For instance--not to mention smaller additions--S:S: 26
   and 27 in Pt. I. Chap. III. (pp. 130-136), the second and third
   paragraphs of S: 13 in Pt. II. Chap. V. (pp. 255-257), and the second
   note in the Appendix (pp. 270-277) are entirely new. In fact, in this,
   as in other matters, Prof. Schmiedel has spared himself no trouble in
   order to lay the results of his studies in as complete a form as
   possible (having regard, of course, to the limitations imposed by a
   popular German series) before his English readers. In the List of Books
   at the end of the volume references will be found to some of the
   author's contributions to the "Encyclopaedia Biblica "which bear
   directly upon the subject under consideration. It is hoped that the
   present work will serve as an introduction, and in some respects as a
   supplement, to Prof. Schmiedel's famous "Encyclopaedia" articles.

   THE TRANSLATOR.

   July 1908.
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The Johannine Writings
by Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel, translated by Maurice Arthur Canney
611096The Johannine WritingsMaurice Arthur CanneyPaul Wilhelm Schmiedel