Rekonstruksi-rekonstruksi menempatkan kelompok ini pada dunia Mediterania akhir abad pertama, sering kali di Asia Kecil atau Suriah, dan menggambarkan pengabdian kepada Yesus sebagai pewahyu Allah yang unik yang membentuk identitas dan praktik-praktik komunitas.[4][10] Para sarjana lainnya berpendapat bahwa bukti-bukti tekstual tersebut dapat dijelaskan tanpa mengasumsikan adanya sekte terpisah dan lebih memilih model yang berpusat pada penulis, sastra, atau jaringan.[11][12][13][14][5]
↑This article uses the term Johannine community as a heuristic label for a scholarly reconstruction rather than as an established historical fact.
↑Hurtado, Larry W. (2005), How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus, Grand Rapids, MI and Cambridge, UK: Wm. B. Eerdmans, ISBN978-0-8028-2861-3
↑Kysar, Robert (2007), John, the Maverick Gospel (Edisi 3rd), Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, ISBN978-0-664-23056-2
↑Bauckham, Richard (2007), The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology in the Gospel of John, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, ISBN978-0-8010-3485-5
↑Bauckham, Richard (2017), Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Edisi 2nd), Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, ISBN978-0-8028-7431-3
↑Ong, Hughson T. (2015), "The Gospel from a Specific Community but for All Christians: Understanding the Johannine Community as a Community of Practice", dalam Porter, Stanley E.; Ong, Hughson T. (ed.), The Origins of John's Gospel, Johannine Studies, vol.2, Leiden and Boston: Brill, hlm.101–123, doi:10.1163/9789004303164_007, ISBN978-90-04-30316-4
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