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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,...

has his own way of presenting an alternative story of Jesus, and his project is distinctive because he has his own tradition to convey and story to tell. While Matthew and Luke built upon Mark, John builds around Mark; John’s alternative rendering of Jesus’ ministry appears knowing and intentional. The theological tensions in the Fourth Gospel do not represent a multiplicity of sources and authors; they reflect a pervasively dialectical approach to most
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