paths of interpretation. We will not treat John’s Gospel as a book of theology, particularly Christology. Nor will we treat the Gospel of John as a potential source for tidbits of information about the historical Jesus, isolating individual elements of John’s presentation, ranking them on a scale of historical “authenticity,” and determining whether they are more or less historical than data from the Synoptics. Nor will we treat the Gospel of John as a redacted text or a text that tells primarily