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John, His Gospel, and Jesus: In Pursuit of the Johannine Voice is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Stanley Porter tackles a variety of important and often highly contentious topics within the Gospel of John as a means of defining and capturing the distinctive Johannine voice. Subjects discussed include John in relation to competing Gospels, the public proclamation of Jesus in John, the sources of John’s Gospel, John’s prologue, the “I Am” sayings, the notion of truth, the...

There has been widespread confusion and misunderstanding regarding the Greek article, much of it related to its supposed origins in the demonstrative pronoun.21 A better approach is to see the article as a structural indicator that has various contextually based functional uses.22 The article serves to define or disambiguate the sense relations of the words or phrases in construction with it. However, interpreters often confuse the structural uses of the article with the meanings of the substantive
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