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Understanding the Fourth Gospel

by John Ashton (former University Lecturer In New Testament Studies, And Fellow Of Wolfson College, Oxford)

  • Hardback
  • 606 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 3.9 cm

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In this fully revised new edition of a pioneering study of John's gospel, John Ashton explores fresh topics and takes account of the latest scholarly debates. Ashton argues first that the thought-world of the gospel is Jewish, not Greek, and secondly that the text is many-layered, not simple, and composed over an extended period as the evangelist responded to the changing situation of the community he was addressing. Ashton seeks to provide new and coherent answers to what Rudolf Bultmann called the two great riddles of the gospel: its position in the development of Christian thought and its central or governing idea. In arguing that the first of these should be concerned rather with Jewish thought Ashton offers a partial answer to the most important and fascinating of all the questions confronted by New Testament scholarship: how did Christianity emerge from Judaism? Bultmann's second riddle is exegetical, and concerns the message of the book. Ashton's answer highlights a generally neglected feature of the gospel's concept of revelation: its debt to Jewish apocalyptic.
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  • Author

    John Ashton (former University Lecturer In New Testament Studies, And Fellow Of Wolfson College, Oxford)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    April 2007

  • Edition

    2nd Revised edition

  • Weight

    854g

  • Page Count

    606

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 3.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199297610

  • ISBN-10

    0199297614

  • Eden Code

    1117092

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