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Belief in the Word: Reading the Fourth Gospel, John 1–4 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although studies have appeared on current narrative and reading approaches to John’s Gospel, no commentary is available that integrates their findings for students and scholars. Professor Moloney has met this need with a pioneering commentary that focuses on the text itself and its impact on the reader.

to the prose narrative section of the Gospel (1:19–20:31) armed with the information provided in the poetic narrative of the prologue. Only the omniscient implied author and the narrator have knowledge of the contents of the prologue. No one else in the narrative knows the secrets the author has told the reader in the prologue. Rudolf Bultmann has sensed the prologue’s importance for a reading of the Gospel: “He [the reader] cannot yet fully understand them [motifs in the prologue], but because they
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