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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...

found in Judean4 as well as Greco-Roman literature.5 The encomium, therefore, is the viewpoint of the ancients themselves, the report of a native informant who indicates what conventional topics and contents need be covered to amplify praise for an honorable ancient person. This study, then, is no mere add-on to Johannine scholarship, but a worthy contribution because it examines the Fourth Gospel in the most likely honorable terms that author and audience of the Fourth Gospel would recognize. Under
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