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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,...

Reflecting on a dozen leading approaches to the origin and composition of the Fourth Gospel, we see that each of them has its own set of strengths—and likewise weaknesses. Impressive also is the way each of these approaches to John seeks to make sense of the Johannine riddles, with varying degrees of success. In this chapter, I shall lay out what I believe to be the best way to handle the classic Johannine questions, always seeking
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