The first comprehensive study of St. John's Gospel in forty years, this book provides new and coherent answers to what Rudolf Baltmann regarded as the two great riddles of the Gospel: its position in the history of Christian thought, and its central or governing idea. Ashton provides translations of all non-English quotations, and confines detailed exegetical arguments and intricate questions of specialized concern to the footnotes, therein making Understanding the Fourth Gospel an accessible study of the Gospel for the general reader.
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"The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and knowledgeable study of the fourth gospel available today. Comparable in scope, erudition, and insight to the classic works of Dodd and Bultmann from a previous scholarly generation."--J. Warren Holleran, St. Patrick's Seminary
"Presents an outstanding overview of the history of Johannine scholarship and then offers some valuable insights into the theology of the book itself."--Irvin Meinrad Arkin, St. Louis University
"Fine book! After reading Ashton, most commentaries seem dull....I will almost certainly choose it as a required text the next time I do a graduate course on John."--David P. Efroymson, La Salle University
"An important benchmark in understanding the Fourth Gospel."--Religious Studies Review
"This significant contribution to the debate on Johannine Gospel origins offers nuanced insights, serious evaluations of other scholars, and is sensitively and economically written."--Theological Studies
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John Ashton is at Wolfson College, Oxford.
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Ashton has left no stone unturned. Every pebble has been picked up, looked at, cataloged, set aside, and used. There is no aspect of Johannine studies that Ashton has not read, learned, mastered and presented here in this literal encyclopedia of Johannine learning. This is not an easy bedtime book to read. Like climbing a mountain. It requires effort. It requires patience. It requires seriousness and diligence. But for the person willing to work through this massively written, theologically dense, literate work on John's gospel -- the view and scenery are breathtaking and you will never be the same. Once I finished reading it, it took my breath away when I considered what Ashton was up to here. Ashton shows himself a master of Johannine studies as few others are, and there are many brilliant commentators on John. Not for the faint of heart, but worthy of study and reflection.
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revelatory schema, riddling discourse, stranger from heaven, secrecy theory, ecclesiastical redactor, heavenly stage, controversy material, fourth gospel, signs source, gospel genre, futuristic eschatology, fourth evangelist, temple episode, finished gospel, earthly stage, farewell discourse, johannine theology, first riddle, synoptic tradition, divine emissary, ethical dualism, high christology, cultic setting, messianic secret Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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revelatory schema, riddling discourse, stranger from heaven, secrecy theory, ecclesiastical redactor, heavenly stage, controversy material, fourth gospel, signs source, gospel genre, futuristic eschatology, fourth evangelist, temple episode, finished gospel, earthly stage, farewell discourse, johannine theology, first riddle, synoptic tradition, divine emissary, ethical dualism, high christology, cultic setting, messianic secret Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Testament, Old Testament, Synoptic Gospels, John the Baptist, Wayne Meeks, Raymond Brown, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jesus of Nazareth, Second Temple, Jesus Christ, Lamb of God, Odes of Solomon, Second Isaiah, Gospel of Signs, Testament of Moses, Community Rule, Kyrios Christos, Book of Revelation, Moody Smith, Prayer of Joseph, Barnabas Lindars, Christian Jews, Davidic Messiah, Johannine Christ, Margaret Barker New!
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- Interpretation of John (Studies in New Testament Interpretation) by John Ashton on 6 pages
- Priority of John by J.A.T. Robinson on page 428, page 429, and Back Matter
- Oracles of God: Perceptions of Ancient Prophecy in Israel after the Exile by John Barton on page 222, page 385, and page 435
- Jesus and Judaism by E P Sanders on page 414, and page 432
- The Son of God: The Origin of Christology and the History of Jewish-Hellenistic Religion by Martin Hengel on page 51, and page 261
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- Rhetoric at the Boundaries: The Art and Theology of New Testament Chain-Link Transitions by Bruce W. Longenecker on 22 pages
- John's Wisdom: A Commentary on the Fourth Gospel by Ben Witherington III on 13 pages
- The God of the Gospel of John by Marianne Meye Thompson on 12 pages
- Called by Stories: Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law by Milner S. Ball on 8 pages
- The Theology of the Gospel of John (New Testament Theology) by Dwight Moody Smith on 7 pages
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