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Reading John: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Fourth Gospel and the Johannine Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

New Testament scholar Charles Talbert’s unique commentary considers the entire scope of the works attributed to John, their literary settings and particularities, and their continuing theological importance to the Christian story. Thoughtful and engaging, Reading John provides throughout a careful analysis of literary structure and development; it addresses the fundamental theological message and...

makes God known (On Dreams 1.68–69; Allegorical Interpretation 3.169–78); (e) the logos enables humans to become sons of God (Confusion of Languages 1.146–47; Thomas H. Tobin, “The Prologue of John and Hellenistic Jewish Speculation,” CBQ 52 [1990]: 252–69). The Fourth Gospel’s prologue happens to use Logos/Word instead of Sophia/Wisdom, perhaps because both it and the LXX of Genesis 1 begin alike (en arche/in beginning), perhaps because a masculine term (logos) seemed more appropriate for the man
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