Studying John: Approaches to the Fourth Gospel and Understanding the Fourth Gospel

Studying John: Approaches to the Fourth Gospel

Name: Studying John: Approaches to the Fourth Gospel
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Author: John Ashton (Lecturer in New Testament Studies, Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198269793

Approaches to the Fourth Gospel

by John Ashton (Lecturer in New Testament Studies, Wolfson College, University of Oxford)

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240 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
13.8 x 21.4 x 1.4 cm

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Is historical criticism of the New Testament dead? In this collection of eight essays on John's Gospel, John Ashton argues that this is very far from the case. Challenging the assumptions of methodologies which ignore the historical context in which the Gospel was composed, the author offers a defence of historical criticism and provides practical demonstration of the many new insights which it has still to yield. The first two chapters treat in greater depth two key themes, the Prologue of John and the Jews, which appeared in the author's "Understanding the Fourth Gospel" (Clarendon Paperbacks, 1993). A third chapter is intended to supplement and correct this larger work. The rest of the book explores some of the serious theoretical weaknesses in much recent writing on the Gospel and makes some alternative proposals.