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John

John

Paperback

Series: Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries, Book 7

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0631229078
ISBN13: 9780631229070
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Jan 7 2004
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This pioneering commentary embraces the full scope and themes raised in John's Gospel, offering an engaging and perceptive reading.

Mark Edwards explores a diverse range of excerpts and creative responses, with particular emphasis on the treatment of the Gospel in English poetry.

  • Explores the diverse themes and issues raised in John's Gospel, and considers its influence on figures from Saint Augustine, to Dorothy Sayers and Bob Dylan.
  • Treats well-known interpreters such as Thomas Aquinas along with lesser-known figures such as the Gnostic Heracleon, and the sixth-century hymn-writer, Romanos.
  • Brings ancient and modern commentators into dialogue with each other, and takes a critical stance towards some parallels drawn by modern scholars between the Gospel and the surrounding pagan culture.
  • Features excerpts from a wide variety of poets who give a creative interpretation of John's Gospel, and considers many artistic representations.
  • Suggests that imaginative response can illuminate a reading of the Bible where purely critical and historical analysis has proved unsatisfactory.
  • An accessible introduction and extensive section notes address interpretations of the Gospel from antiquity to the present.
  • Published as part of the ground-breaking Blackwell Bible Commentaries series.

More information about this series is available from the Blackwell Bible Commentaries website at http: //www.bbibcomm.net/

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