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The Gospel of John, full of striking language and symbolism, is familiar to many as a sourcebook of favorite quotations. It is far more difficult to read this complex and subtle Gospel as a coherent whole on its own terms. In this volume, Jo-Ann A. Bryant, an expert on John’s dramatic rhetoric, helps students and pastors do just that.

Many situate John’s use of logos within Second Temple Jewish wisdom tradition as well as the speculative theology represented by the writings of Philo of Alexandria. John’s description of the origin of the logos and its indwelling is comparable to descriptions of wisdom (sophia) found in Sir. 1:1–4; 24:8; and Wis. 9:1–2. Philo of Alexandria provides an example of a Jewish contemporary of Jesus who fuses neoplatonic or Stoic notions of the logos and the Jewish vision of a world called into being by
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