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The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

Given all that has been written about the Gospel of John over the past twenty centuries, can anything more possibly be said about it? Yes, says Jerome Neyrey—by reading this “maverick Gospel” in terms of ancient rhetoric and by viewing it in terms of cultural anthropology. By interpreting the text in these two fresh ways, Neyrey distinctively illuminates the Gospel of John, casting new light on...

them. Jesus is now the benefit of benefits sought at festive worship: he is the bread come down from heaven (6:33–51), the Passover lamb (19:33–34), the rains/water (7:37–38) and the sun/light (8:12) sought at Tabernacles. But where is the evidence that Johannine disciples kept a calendar of this sort? Balancing these replacements, we learn that special significance was given to the “first day of the week” (20:1) and the “eighth day” (20:26). Who? Worship, of course, is directed to God. And God,
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