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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.

¶ NARRATIVES FOLLOW a time line, have a plot, and are marked by characters and settings. But the first page of the Fourth Gospel, the first reading experience created by the author for the implied reader, has little of that. Yet if the text as we have it is the deliberate ordering of material by a real author to communicate a point of view through a narrative, the first page of the Gospel of John must be fundamental to the narrative structure of the Fourth
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