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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.

the biblical tradition, that moment is the “beginning” of all that was. But before that archē the Word “was.” The deliberate choice of the imperfect form of the verb “to be” places the Word outside time, without any controlled “beginning” of his own. The first use of the imperfect form of the verb “to be” indicates the Word’s preexistence. In that timeless situation before there ever was time, the Word ēn pros ton theon. The use of the preposition pros followed by the accusative case indicates
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