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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199544226
Number of Pages: 608
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
In this fully revised new edition of a pioneering study of John's gospel, John Ashton explores fresh topics and takes account of the latest scholarly debates. Ashton argues first that the thought-world of the gospel is Jewish, not Greek, and secondly that the text is many-layered, not simple, and composed over an extended period as the evangelist responded to the changing situation of the community he was addressing. Ashton seeks to provide new and coherent answers to what Rudolf Bultmann called the two great riddles of the gospel: its position in the development of Christian thought and its central or governing idea. In arguing that the first of these should be concerned rather with Jewish thought Ashton offers a partial answer to the most important and fascinating of all the questions confronted by New Testament scholarship: how did Christianity emerge from Judaism? Bultmann's second riddle is exegetical, and concerns the message of the book. Ashton's answer highlights a generally neglected feature of the gospel's concept of revelation: its debt to Jewish apocalyptic.
I. GENESIS ; II. REVELATION

John Ashton (Former University Lecturer in New Testament Studies, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)

Understanding the Fourth Gospel is surely a classic: it sets a new agenda for Johannine studies overall, is endlessly illuminating in detail, and beautifully written. Robin Griffith-Jones, Times Literary Supplement John Ashton has already done more than anyone else in our generation to help us to study and understand the Fourth Gospelthis [is a] magisterial book. Robin Griffith-Jones, Times Literary Supplement

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