Understanding the Fourth Gospel - Hardcover

Ashton, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198264615 ISBN 13: 9780198264613

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1991

Synopsis

In this first comprehensive study of St John's Gospel for almost 40 years, John Ashton attempts to provide 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. Detailed exegetical arguments, advancing scholarly debate or intricate questions of specialized concern, are, for the most part, confined to footnotes and a series of five major excursuses. The central questions, however, are all tackled in the main text where all non-English sources quoted are translated so as to make the book accessible to the general reader.

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Review:

A splendid piece of scholarship, brilliant in conception and profound in argument (Expository Times)

An important contribution to understanding the Gospel, which is likely to have profound influence on all future work in this field. (Scottish Journal of Theology)

Essential reading ... lucid and ... illuminated by delightful turns of phrase. At a scholarly level ... this is a book to be reckoned with. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

About the Author:

John Ashton was formerly University Lecturer in New Testament Studies, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0198264615
• ISBN 13: 9780198264613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 616