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    Understanding the Fourth Gospel by Ashton, John;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 2
    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 26 April 2007

    • ISBN 9780199297610
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages606 pages
    • Size 224x144x34 mm
    • Weight 857 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    A fully revised new edition of a pioneering study of John's gospel. John 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.

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    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.

    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

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    I. Genesis
    Religious Dissent
    The Community and its Book
    Messiah
    Son of God
    Son of Man
    Messenger of God
    II. Revelation
    Introduction
    Intimations of Apocalyptic
    The Gospel Genre
    The Story of Wisdom
    Dualism
    Departure and Return
    Passion and Resurrection
    The Medium and the Message

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