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The Writings of John: A Survey of the Gospel, Epistles, and Apocalypse is unavailable, but you can change that!

The writings of John are some of the most foundational New Testament documents for today’s Christians. Most evangelical teaching about the life of Jesus begins with the Gospel of John, and Christian teaching on the end times relies heavily on the book of Revelation. Students, pastors, and lay learners need solid, up-to-date resources like this book to responsibly study and understand John’s...

This particular wisdom background seems to best identify the conceptual framework of John’s prologue, although other alternatives have been suggested.2 I conclude this discussion of the background of John’s prologue by identifying three purposes it served. First, John’s prologue refuted the rabbinic notion that the law of Moses is the Wisdom of God by equating Jesus Christ with Wisdom who replaces the Torah. Second, verses like John 1:14 (the Word became flesh “and made his dwelling among us”) may
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