Ito, Hisayasu2016-06-232016-06-2320151015-8758 (print)2309-9089 (online)http://hdl.handle.net/11660/3171Since the enigmatic nature of John's Gospel has attracted a great deal of attention from many scholars, numerous studies of this Gospel have been produced. Each endeavour to understand the Gospel demonstrates its own uniqueness, and utilises one of various methodological approaches to suit its particular research purpose. Methodologically, however, modern critical research on this Gospel can be roughly divided into two categories, namely historical approaches and literary approaches, which some scholars further divide into ideological (theological) approaches. One should bear in mind that these categories are merely a simple and provisional depiction of the complex research done on the Gospel. It is thus difficult to classify all works neatly into one of these categories. Since comprehensive bibliographies concerning Johannine research are available to us, in this section I wish to concentrate more on particular research on John 9enJohn 9ArticleFaculty of Theology, University of the Free State