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The Gospel and Letters of John, Volume 1: Introduction, Analysis, and Reference is unavailable, but you can change that!

Nearly all of the problems confronted by those who study John have to do with the literary strata of the Gospel of John and their relation to the composition of the Letters of John. With an archaeologist’s precision, and engaging a whole range of scholarly contributions in this area, von Wahlde digs down to the foundations and exposes three distinct literary strata in the development of the...

Another particularly striking example of Jewish “argument” in the second edition is found in the structure of the Bread-of-Life discourse in 6:30–59. As Borgen has shown, the structure of this discourse bears a remarkable resemblance to the typical structure of first-century Jewish exegetical homilies.104 The parallels will be explained in detail in the Commentary itself and so will not be given here. However, the parallels are remarkable especially when allowances are made for the shift from monologue
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