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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,...

John’s tradition represents an alternative Jesus tradition, ways should be explored to account for its corroborative, distinctive, and alternative renderings of Jesus’ ministry.10 The dialectical character of the Evangelist’s thought suggests firsthand contact with his subject, and while Johannine claims to firsthand memory of Jesus and his ministry are problematic, they have not exactly been critically overturned. Put otherwise, the Johannine Gospel may be the only complete story of Jesus to involve
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