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The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel: An Introduction to John is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul Anderson, a leading scholar of the Fourth Gospel, provides an introductory textbook, crafted for a semester course, which leads students through literary, historical, and theological aspects of the Fourth Gospel’s most vexing puzzles. Traditional, historical-critical, and literary-critical approaches are deftly introduced and their limitations evaluated; questions of the Gospel’s authorship,...

• This approach accounts for the Fourth Gospel’s Jewishness, despite its being finalized within a Gentile setting. Weaknesses of a two-level approach include: • The tendency of the second level of history to eclipse the first; while the Johannine text was finalized in a Hellenistic setting, it also shows signs of Palestinian phases of development. • While extensive excommunication of Jesus adherents from synagogues is unlikely, some marginalization of “ditheists” cannot be ruled out (for example,
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